of such benevolent Persons as have not yet contributed to
the Hospitals (and perhaps to the Publick) highly necessary
and expedient.

No. VI, comprehends those Parts of the general Expen-
diture of both Hospitals, which relate to the several Salaries,
Perquisites, and various Allowances to Officers, Servants,
and others, that are paid out of the Revenues of the Cha-
rities. On this, at present, your Committee offer no Remarks;
but submit the Particulars thereof in Silence to the Reflection
and Consideration of the Court, and particularly of those
Governors, whether on Committees or otherwise, who have
had more Opportunities than this Committee of knowing
the Nature, Extent, and Utility of the Offices and Services
for which the liberal Salaries and other Emoluments speci-
fied in that Abstract are given.

(22)

STANDING ORDERS.

IF the various Orders for the Management of the two
Hospitals, which are dispersed throughout the numerous
Court and Committee Books, had been methodically ar-
ranged, as they were respectively ordered, and above all
duly enforced, they would probably have superseded, in a
great Measure, the Necessity of this Committee, and cer-
tainly would have saved them a most laborious Research;
and, after all their Enquiries, your Committee have good Rea-
son to fear that many essential Rules have been overlooked,
which might have existed, They turned their Attention, there-
fore, particularly to supply that Defect, and have compiled a
Set of Rules and Orders, which comprehend all the valua-
ble Parts of those they have found; to which they have added
such others as, they think, are indispensably necessary for
the good Government of the Hospitals.These, as well
as the Duties of your Officers and Servants (which they have
likewise revised and extended) will be found in the Appen-
dix, under their respective Heads. And your Committee re-
commend, that all the existing Rules, Orders, and Duties
(not

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(not relating to the Prisons, Arts-masters, and Apprentices)
be rescinded; and that those now offered, with any others
the Court shall hereafter make, be adopted, and do consti-
tute the only Standing Rules and Orders.

THE internal Regulations of Bethlem Hospital, being In
their own Nature temporary, and liable to be changed and
adapted to Circumstances, are placed immediately before the
Duties of Officers and Servants attached to that Branch of
the Charities; and these will be found to comprehend the
Ideas and Recommendations of the Committee, as to the
Reduction on Admission and of other Fees, as well as on
some lesser Matters.

(24)

MANAGEMENT.

YOUR Committee having disclaimed all Intention to com-
ment upon past Abuses and Deviations from the true
Spirit of these Charities; they put in their Claim to the Con-
fidence of the Court, when they declare that they are only
led to recommend the following Regulations by the strongest
Conviction, after very mature Deliberation, that they are
absolutely necessary to prevent future Irregularities. They beg
Leave to lay down as primary and incontrovertible Positi-
ons, to which all their Recommendations refer;

THAT, in the Language of the first Governors, the Ob-
ject of both Establishments is, "the Benefit of the Poor only;"
and that, agreeable to the solemn and excellent Charge
given on his Admission, it is the indispensable Duty of every
Governors to keep that Sacred Object constantly in View, and to
promote it, by every Means in his Power, with Fidelity and
Zeal, as well by increasing the Revenues of the Hospitals, as
guarding the Application thereof from all Abuse.

UNDER these Impressions, and with these Views, your
Committee suggest and recommend the following Regula-
tions,