Country code |
GB |
Repository code |
234 |
Repository |
National Records of Scotland |
Reference |
B15/6/3 |
Title |
Papers relating to the burgh jail and appointment of jailers |
Dates |
1737-1842 |
Access status |
Open |
Location |
Off site |
Description |
Including
(1) 1737 April 18 List of 7 prisoners delivered to the prison of Dornoch.
(5) 1818 Mar 26 Copy interlocutor of Lord Justice Clerk and Lords Commissioners of Justiciary declaring certain newly-refitted apartments in the castle or palace of Dornoch to be a legal prison for criminal prisoners, with related petition by the burgh.
(9) 1835 May 14. Dornoch William Ross to [town clerk]. Reports that prisoners in the jail may contract smallpox which had already raged in Dornoch, unless vaccination was effected, all diseased persons removed or additional accommodation found. With report (10) that a second prisoner has contracted smallpox, and that effluvia affects the whole jail `in a manner almost insupportable', 30 May 1835, and a similar report (13) by Hugh Lumsden, sheriff of Sutherland, 11 July 1835.
(12) 1835 June 10. London James Loch, MP, to Robert S Taylor. Concerning obstacles to enlarging the jail and paying for it. Duke of Sutherland suggests conversion of the court room and room above for female prison cells, and the holding of courts in the schoolhouse or elsewhere in the town. Any valuable records could be kept at Rhives or Dunrobin meantime. If Fraser the factor's accounts are worth preserving they could be sent to Rhives and an inventory made of all records removed.
(14) 1835 Nov 12-13 Printed petition and copy interlocutor declaring additional rooms in the castle to be a legal jail for debtors.
(20) 1836 List of 14 criminals and number of days of incarceration.
(21) c. 1836 Draft instructions for the conduct of [Dornoch?] jail, including admittance of prisoners, prison hours, and work, inspection, female prisoners, food, clothing, bedding, instruction (reading to be encouraged), reward and punishment, visitors, mail, prison accounts and registers. Proposes abolition of jailers' fees and recommends that sentences should state if the prisoner was required to work.
(23) 1840 July 1 Inventory of furniture in Dornoch jail. |
Level |
File |
Extent |
23 items |
Related material |
See also B15/2/2 and SC9/84/19, 20, 34 and 36 for papers relating to the jail. |
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