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inner door of which is conftantly kept locked, the 

 outer one openj there are two windows opening 

 from it, one into each debtors' day-room; thefe 

 windows are barred, but a table goes through each 

 of them, one half being in the debtors' room, the 

 other half in the vifiting-room. Debtors are not 

 therefore excluded from the fociety of their rela- 

 tions or friends, yet the vifitors are not allowed in 

 general to come into the rooms, by which means 

 jnarty irregularities are prevented. In particular 

 cafes, the keeper, where he finds it proper, unlocks 

 the inner door, and fuffers the debtor to take his 

 friend with him into his cell, or court. Fines and 

 felons have not the fame indulgence, their friends 

 cannot fee them but in the prefence of the keeper, 

 the three gates of their vifiting-rooms being all 

 locked. The keeper, on application, lets the friend 

 into the fpace between the firfl and fecond gates, and 

 Hands himfelf in the fpace between the fecond and 

 third, the prifoner remaining inthe.courtj he can 

 thus eife6tually prevent the introduftion of weapons, 

 liquor, or other article, the ufe of which is forbidden 

 in the prifon, as well as be a check on any improper 

 converfation. In the cafe, however, of fome known 

 relation of the party or other perfon having real pri- 

 vate bufmefs with the prifoner, the keeper previoufly 

 fearches the friend, and then adinits him or her into 

 the fpace between the fecond and third gates, and 



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