Friday 4th. December 1741.

OfficersOrders relating 1st
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Resolved and Ordered that two Books be provided (one to be kept by the
Steward & the other by the Porter) and the Folios Numbered from one to the
whole number of Folies in each and that at the bottom of the last Felio of
each book there be wrote in words at length the Number of Folies in the
whole and subscribed by themselves Examined by us after their having
Examined it

O. Acton Steward
John Standish< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. Porter }

2d.

That on any Prisoner or Prisoners being Committed by a Warrant from the
Lord Mayor or any Justice of the Peace that the person receiving time her or them
do imediately indorse on the back of the Warrant the day and Hour when they
were received and subscribe their name close under such Indorsement

3d.

That the Warrants as they come in be Numbered on the front the first that
comes to be made Number One and the rest in the Order they shall come

4th

That the Porter do enter in his Book the Number of the Warrant the name
of the Person or persons comitted, by whom, when, on whose Oath and for
what CauseAnd for all Warrants of Committment which shall come
in from Eight of the Clock in the Morning untill four of the Clock in
the Afternoon the Porter having Entered them in his Book do carry them
by six of the clock the same day or sooner if he can to the Steward to be
Entred in Like manner by him in his Book and that those Warrants
be returned by him to the StewsPorter by Ten of the Clock the next
Morning or sooner if he conveniently canAnd for all Warrants of
Committment which shall come in from four of the Clock in the
Afternoon untill Eight of the Clock the next Morning being Entered in
like manner by the Porter be carried by him to the Steward by Ten of
the Clock to be Entered in like manner by him in his Book and that their
Warrants be returned by him to the Porter by four of the clock Afternoon
of the same dayAnd that the Porter do carefully file the said
Warrants in order according to their Number

5th.

That a large Margine be in each book to enter by what Authority each
Prisoner was discharged & if Corrected to be inserted also in the Margine

6th.

That a Compleat Kalendar be prepared by the Porter for the President &
Treasurer against he sitting of each Court for Tryal of Prisoners containing an
Account of all Prisoners remaining by order of any former Courts the whole
number of Prisoners committed by Warrant from the last Court to that and in
Case any of them have been discharged betwixt the Court days it be said in the
Margine by whom, And that the Porter have those Discharged ready to produce
And that the said Kalendars be Examined if night & signed by the Steward
& Porter asserting they are so

7th.

That in Case of Escapes the Quickest Notice be given thereof to the Steward &
Porter and the best Endeavours used to retake him her or themAnd that
the President & Treasurer be acquainted with such Escapes & retaking if they are got again

8th.

That the Porter & his Man, the Matron and her Servant, The Beadles,
Hempdresser & his Servants view the Prisoners well & if they know any of them
to have been in the Hospital before that they do give an Account thereof to the
Steward & the Porters that it may be inserted in the Kalender & reced to the Court

9th.

And that the Clerk have ready to turn to the Cause of their former
Committement & the Judgment of the Court thereon.

1741
Decr. 5th. dd Copy to Mr. Acton's Maid
[..] another to Standish

7th.-dd Copy of 2d. 7th. & 8th drtress
to the Mations maid Mr. Cox
Dailington & Brown

9th.-dd Copy of 2d. 7th & 8th. Articles
to Morgan R.S