Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    QGR2/6/2/6
  • Title
    Report of the prison Visiting Justices to the Bedfordshire Midsummer Quarter Sessions. William Stuart junior, William Lynn Smart, W B Higgins, [illegible] , C C Beaty Pownall, Hugh Smyth, Campion. Includes the following:
  • Date free text
    June 1870
  • Production date
    From: 1870 To: 1870
  • Scope and Content
    The Visiting Justices have taken into consideration the letter from the Home Office as to taking photographs of prisoners for the object of the Habitual Criminals Act of 1869 which was referred to them by the last Court of Quarter Sessions. They propose that a sum of £10 be exended in putting the present apparatus into good order and also that a sum of £25 be allowed annually for the expenditure to beincurred and be defrayed out of the police fund in conformity of the privisions of the act. They have provisionally appointed store keeper George Maile to be Chief Warder in the place of John Paton Hillhouse, deceased, and have provisionally appointed Robert Britton to be a warder in the place of Maile. Recommend Maile to reside in the Chief Wardens House and that his present salary be raised from £80 to £90. They recommend that the duties of store keeper be discharged by the Clerk, Thomas Hester, who chas been employed in the prison about seven years, and that in consideration of these additional duties and the additional work in the office caused by the Habitual Criminals Act, a present increase of £10 be made to his salary and that he be allowed £3 per annum in lieu of uniform. They recommend that the duties of schoolmaster be discharged by warder Wright, who has been inthe service of the prsion nearly 8 years, with an immediate increase of £5 to his present salary and a graduated increase according to the scale. Elizabeth Hart, one of the female warders, has tendered her resignation, the Visiting Justices are taking steps to fill up the vacancy. The late Cheif Warder who was a faithful servant to the County for more than 20 years has left a widow, whose case the Visiting Justices recomend to the consideration of the Court.
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