APPENDIX 45.

He is to take especial care, that all the drugs and medicines are of the
best kind, and are not wasted or applied to any other purposes than the true
objects of the charities: and to deliver a list to the Bethlem Committee, every
Saturday, of the what are immediately necessary; and of such others as he may
have been obliged to procure during the preceding week, for any pressing and
unforeseen occasion.

THE CLERK FOR BOTH HOSPITALS

Is to attend every day throughout the year, Sundays excepted, at the
office in Bridewell Hospital, from Nine o'clock in the morning till Five in the
afternoon.

He is to issue out the summonses for all Courts and Committees; where
he is also to attend, take the minutes of the proceedings, draw them out
at large, and enter them fairly in proper books kept for that purpose, which
shall be open for the inspection of any Governor.

He is to keep a book, wherein the Treasurer is to enter his general receipts
and payments, as they occur, on account of both Hospitals; and to produce the
same from time to time to any Governor requesting to have the inspection
thereof.

To keep a correct account of all the Governors and future Benefactors to
the Hospitals; and a book of all the rules and orders, with the duties of the
Officers and Servants; and another of extracts of wills and legacies.

To draw up all reports from the Committees to the Court; to acknowledge
benefactions and donations, and communicate the proceedings of the Court
thereon.

To write all letters to Tenants and others, and transact such other business
as shall be directed by Courts and Committees.

He is to draw and ingross all the leases and assignments of leases of the
Hospital estates; and to enter abstracts thereof, and of all schedules, contracts,
and reports after views, in proper books, for the information of the Steward
and Surveyor; and to draw up all bonds and other securities, petitions, and
orders, relating to both Hosptials.

He is to acquaint the President and House Committee of the deaths of
officers and servants, and of all vacancies, as soon as possible.

He is to make a list of the Governors, to be yearly delivered to the Lord
Mayor on St. Matthew's day; and generally to do all in his power to
guard the true interests and standing orders of the charities from abuse and
evasion.

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THE SURVEYOR FOR BOTH HOSPITALS

Is to attend Committees and all Views in town when required; to recom-
mend, estimate, and superintend, all alterations or repairs on the site of
both Hospitals; to measure all works, and to examine all workmen's
bills as soon as delivered; to survey and give his opinion as to the
rents, repairs, and buildings, proper for such houses or premises as are to be let
on building or repairing leases; to attend the letting thereof, when required;
and to see that such repairs buildings are done according to the contract,
and report thereon to the House Committee, with the sum which ought to be
insured for the same; and to furnish the Clerk with plans of each ground-plot
and building, to be affixed to the leases; to keep a book of estimates for all
buildings and repairs, and lay the same before the House Committee; to make
out schedules of fixtures, when required; and in all other respects to render
the Hospitals his best services as a Surveyor.

THE STEWARD OF BRIDEWELL

Is not to follow any profession, trade, business, or other employment
whatever; but to appropriate the whole of his time with diligence and
fidelity to the service of the Hospitals, particularly that of Bridewell.

He is to collect and receive all the rents, arrears, insurances, and annuities,
payable to both Hospitals, as the same become due (except those from the
Orphan Stock and the Public Funds), and pay all monies as soon as received to
the Treasurer.

To keep a regular cash book, in which shall be entered all sums of money
received and paid by him on account of the Hospitals; which shall be balanced
every month, and laid before the Treasurer when required, and the House
Committee and the Committee of Auditors at every meeting.

He is state to the House Committee, at each of their meetings previous to
the four General Quarterly Courts, the amount of the arrears of the revenues
of the Hospitals under his receipt; with a list of all such tenants whose rents
shall be more than six months in arrear.

He is to take care that the several insurances, and the payments for the same,
on the buildings belonging to the Hospitals, be regularly made, and the po-
licies renewed when necessary.

He is to keep a rental of the estates of both Hospitals; and report to the first
House Committee, after every Lady-day, all the leases which are within three
years of expiration, and also when they are expired; and continue to report
the same to every succeeding Committee until they are re-let.

He is to direct such repairs as by accidents or decay may become imme-
diately and absolutely necessary to be done, and all other matters (not ex-
eceding forty shillings) with as much oeconomy as possible.

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To see that the several inferior officers and servants do their duty; and that
the Workmen, employed in all repairs and buildings for Bridewell Hospital, do
regularly attend and do their work; and check the books to be kept by the
Porter for that purpose.

To examine the workmen's and tradesmen's bills, and the several charges
therein, previous to their being laid before the Committees.

To attend all Courts and Committees of Bridewell Hospital, and to observe
such directions as shall be there given him.

He is to provide and deliver out the diet for the prisoners daily; and gene
rally to see that they are properly and humanely attended to.

He is to acquaint Governors with their election; and to wait on them
with staves, and a copy of the rules and orders.

He is annually to make up the general accompts of both Hospitals to
Christmas: and to attend and assist the Auditors in balancing and preparing
the same, to lay before the General Court in April.

THE PORTER OF BRIDEWELL

Is to receive into his custody all prisoners under a legal commitment, and
not otherwise; and immediately to indorse on the back of the warrant the day
and hour when such prisoner was received, and subscribe his name close to
such indorsement, and number the warrants on the front as they come in,
to enter in a book, provided for the purpose, the number of the warrant,
the name of the prisoner committed, by whom, when, on whose oath, and
for what cause; and, after such entry, to carry all warrants of commitment
which shall come in from eight o'clock in the morning until four in the
afternoon, on or before fix o'clock of the same day, to the Steward, to be en
tered in his book; and to carry those which shall arrive betwixt four o'clock in
the afternoon and eight the next morning to the Steward by ten o'clock, to be
entered in like manner; and then carefully to file the said warrants in nume
rical order; to enter in the margin of the said book by what authority each
prisoner was discharged, and also whether corrected.

To view and inspect the prisoners well; and cause his Man, the Matron,
Beadles, and others, to do the same; and ascertain whether any of the prisoners
have been in the prison before. In cases of escape, to acquaint the President
and Treasurer thereof and use his best endeavours to retake the prisoner.

He is to see that the men's prison be well washed once a week with vinegar,
and sumigated once a week with tar; and that all the men prisoners, in health
to bear it, be bathed on admission, and as often afterwards as necessary, or as
may be directed by the Medical Officers and the Prison Committee.

To acquaint the Steward when any prisoner is sick and not able to work, or
send for the Physician, Surgeon, or Apothecary, as the case require; to
treat the prisoners with humanity and kindness, and to keep them safe and
clean till they shall be duly discharged; to deliver them daily to the Taskmaster.

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and visit them in the shops frequently, to see that they be kept to labour, and
not abused; but not to allow any prisoner or city apprentice a bed, liquor, or
other indulgence, except by order by order of the Chamberlain of London, the Prison
Committee, one of the Medical Officers, or the Steward of Bridewell; and not
to receive any see whatsoever from a prisoner, or suffer any to be paid; and to
deliver the copy of his commitment, when required, gratis; and not to harbour or
accommodate any lodgers or inmates, on pain of being immediately discharged.

He is to enter daily in his diet-book the number of prisoner to be charged
to the Taskmaster; and minute down the true reason, if any of them are not
at labour; to bring the diet-book every Monday morning, with the preceding
week's account entered therein, to the Steward to enter in his book; to com-
pare his book with the Steward's, and, if right, to sign the Steward's diet-book,
as a voucher for the same.

He is to prepare a compleat calender for the President and Treasure, and
Prison Committee, against the sitting of each Court, of all prisoners then in
custody, and the whole number of prisoners committed by warrant from the
last Court to that; distinguishing such as have been discharged between the
Court-days, or have been in the prison before, and produce those discharges
if required; the said calendars to be signed by the Steward as well as himself,
and certified to be correct.

To make out the summonses to be delivered by the Beadles to the pro-
secutors of prisoners.

To make a faithful report to the Clerk of the Hospital, some convenient time
before Easter, of the number of prisoners committed in the year past, that if
may be printed in the annual Easter report. And, for the better execution of
his office, he is annually, about Christmas, to be sworn at Guildhall a
Constable.

He is to attend Divine Service, and all Courts and Committees; and at the
public dinners to wait upon the president and Treasurer in his gown.

To receive the President at the gate of the Hospital, and to conduct him
to and from the Court on public occasions, and also to walk in the pro-
cession to the Spital at Easter, with his gown on, and his staff of office in
his hand; and, when obliged to be absent from the Hospital, to take care
that his Man be there in his place.

He is to obey his superior officers, and assist them required ; and to
keep his Man the Beadles in obedience to him , and, as Constable, to
call and command them to his aid and assistance in performing his duty.

To see that his Man do come upon the watch every night at Nine, and stay
there till Eleven o'clock; and at that time to see one of the Beadles, or his Man
in their respective turns, do come upon the watch; to see the gates of the
Hospital are shut at Nine o'clock from Michaelmas to Lady-day, and at Ten
from Lady-day to Michaelmas; and that the locks, fastenings, and hinges of
the gates, doors, and prisons, Etc. are kept oiled and in good order.

To see that workmen and their servants do go regularly and diligently
about their work; and that some of them do every evening. when they leave