12 MINUTES OF EVIDENCE BEFORE SELECT COMMITTEE Piceon House dock, to be embarked on board the vessel engaged to convey them to ^ Gamble Co° k ; orders are given to the commanding officers of the troops along your route, a j to furnish you with such parties of the military as you shall judge necessary for the May.) safe conduct of the prisoners. Previously to the removal of the prisoners from the gaol, you are to cause them to be examined, and any who from ill health may not be able to undertake the journey, you are not to transmit until further order, and, in such case, you will please to send me a certificate, on oath, from the physician or surgeon who shall have inspected the prisoners. The convicts are to be thoroughly cleansed, and their hair cut close, and to be sufficiently clothed, previously to their being removed, agreeably to the annexed Jist. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your most obedient humble servant. W. Gregory. To the Sheriffs of the city of Dublin, & c. & c. & c. A grey jacket. A pair of half bleached strong ticken trowsers, lined, and buttons at the sides. Two pair of stockings. A pair of shoes. Two shirts. A neck handkerchief. A leather cap or hat. And a strong bag to hold the spare articles. Particular care to be taken that the convicts do not dispose of any of their clothing on the road. Have you any fees or emoluments whatever arising from your office, in addition to your salary as inspector?— None. In whose power is it to remove you from your office, if any complaints of miscon- duct should be made?— The King's Bench only. Are you in any way concerned in the purchase of any articles under the grand jury ?— Not at present, except in some trifling petty expenses. You have been ?— I have been formerly. Whet money formerly passed through your hands?— I could tell exactly by refe- rence : I should think at the rate of about 800 i. a year formerly. Was not the grand jury authorized by the 63d section of the 50th of the late King to leave such sums in your hands for expenditure in the prisons?— They were. Is this money paid in advance, or otherwise ?— It is said to be paid in advance, but the case is decidedly otherwise. How long could this money, according to the manner in which such money is paid under the grand jury assessment, remain in your hands?— If actually paid in advance, it could remain for six months only ; but as it has been paid, it has never remained in my hands two months. What is your mode of accounting for it?— 1 he first person that I account to is the inspector of accounts, to whom 1 must produce a book with every document relative to the expenditure of the money, and receipt for every sum ; he must check that book, and I must then on a stamp, produce to the grand jury the account signed by the inspector that it is all correct and compared with the vouchers in every respect; the grand jury then in discretion, either allow or disallow those accounts ; it is before the whole grand jury, not a Committee ; the account must then be sworn to before two magistrates, and submitted to the court for their fiat. Has it happened that any public money often remains in your hands as a balance, after the closing of such accounts ?— Certainly not. Has it often happened that you are very much in advance for the payment of different articles, furnished for the supply of the prisons ?— I have been very often If a balance should remain in your hands, how is that balance appropriated ? It is re- presented in the next sum that is required. Was the public money that passed through your hands for the expenditure of the prisons, accounted for to the public officers in the usual manner?— It was. Are your books ready to prove these circumstances?— They are. Do you challenge the most full inquiry and examination of your accounts, as inspector of prisons ?— I do, the fullest inquiry. \ ou have stated, that the law of the 50th of the late King, leaves to your discretion, the