A folio ledger of neat manuscript ink records of the monthly meetings, showing those present and the matters under review with resulting orders. Most entries name prisoners in need of clothing or shoe repairs, discharge rail fares to be paid, subsistence payments, also disciplinary actions on both prisoners and neglectful staff (including a warder not noticing a conspicuous rope against an outside wall used for the escape of 2 prisoners), orders for provisions, etc.
Notable entries include 'That a Clock called a Watchman's Watch be purchased at a price not exceeding Five Guineas for the use of the Gaol', 'that ... be punished by inflicting on his bare back twelve stripes with an instrument called a cat o' nine tails', 'that Charles Johnson a criminal prisoner... is convicted on oath of having... threatened to cut the Governor of the Gaol into pieces and for that purpose prepared and sharpened with a stone, a piece of iron, being part of his hospital bed..'; '10th April 1872 ... the Governor of the Gaol be requisited to furnish the Secretary of State with a Report of any facts which may have come under his notice and antecedants of Patrick Leonard now under sentence of Death in Leeds Prison for Murder'.