Miss Pescod to be asked to organise.
3 .-- The Town lock-up to be enlarged by taking down the partition between it and a chamber formerly used by the Constable as a potato store.

It was also resolved to strengthen the door and provide it with two new bolts and padlocks.
4 .-- The question of enlarging the Churchyard was deferred to the next (Easter) vestry.
5 .-- Subscriptions to be invited for providing a War Hospital.
The Mayor, with Lawyer Chinn (Town Clerk) and Alderman Hansombody, to seek for suitable premises, and report.
Of Dr.Hansombody I shall have more to tell anon.

For the present let it suffice that before entering public life he had earned our confidence as an apothecary, and especially by his skill and delicacy in maternity cases.
These proposals were duly announced: and only if you know Troy can you conceive with what spirit the town flung itself into the task of making them effective.

"Task," did I say?
When I tell you that at our next drill a parade of thirty-two stretchers followed us up to the Old Fort (still to the tune of "Come, Cheer Up, My Lads!") you may guess how far duty and pleasure had made accord.
The project of a hospital went forward more slowly; but at length the Mayor and his Committee were able to announce that premises had been taken on a lease of seven years (by which time an end to the war might reasonably be predicted) in Passage Street, as you go towards the ferry; the exterior whitewashed and fitted with green jalousie shutters; the interior also cleaned and whitewashed, and a ward opened with two beds.

Though few enough to meet the contingencies of invasion, and a deal too few (especially while they remained unoccupied) to satisfy the zeal of Miss Pescod's corps of nurses (which by the end of the second week numbered forty-three, with sixteen probationary members), these two beds exhausted our subscriptions for the time.