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town house for nearly three weeks in May 1818. He subsequently sued the members of the local masonic lodge, who had asked for his incarceration, for damages of £5,000. After the numbers of persons being held in the cells reduced in the 1820s and 1830s, the ground floor was converted for retail use and, in the second half of the 19th century the first floor windows were replaced by bi-partite
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but it seems that a purpose-built structure was not contemplated until the early 18th century. At that time the burgh leaders decided that the lack of a traditional tolbooth was "uneasy and troublesome".
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was formed in 1975. The building was subsequently converted for use as the local public library. A detailed map of the town, prepared by the
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on both floors. Internally, the principal rooms were the prison cells on the ground floor and the council chamber on the first floor.
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