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Continued Friday 22nd June 1792
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Committees and their different
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A Motion being made and seconded and the Question being put That
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for the better Management of the affairs of the Hospitals, these be the four following
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Committees appointed and annually compleated. First a Bethlem Committee to
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consist of 42 Governors 14 to go off and 14 other Governors to be chosen every year This
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Committee to sub divide and class themselves in such manner that 7 be summoned
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and attend every Saturday to admit and discharge patients and inspect those in
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the House, to examine provisions Audit weekly Bills and dispatch Ordinary and
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casual Business all such weekly sub-Committees to be open to any Governor who may
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chuse to attend but that the whole Number of 42 only be summoned for making
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Contracts and other extraordinary Business on which occasions the Committee not
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to be open. Secondly a Bridewell or House Committee to consist of 24 Governors
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5 to be a Quorum: 8 Governors to go off annually and be replaced by the same
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Number of other Governors This Committee to be regularly Summoned and to meet
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the first Wednesday in every Month (the Month of August excepted) at 9 o Clock
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in the Morning , and not to be an open Committee That it be their peculiar
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province to deliberate and Report upon all matters referred to them by the General
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Court; to Advertise for Contracts for Bridewell and for telling Houses and Estates
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belonging to both Hospitals so that the same be done for the most advantage
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to consider of and direct necessary Repairs and alterations not exceeding £200
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in the whole and to see that such others be properly done as the Court may have
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ordered To attend all views in Town To Examine the Cash Balances at
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every Meeting and to direct and see that all Monies exceeding a
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General resting Balance of £1000 be immediately and properly invested in the public
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funds to approve the appointment of the workmen and Tradesmen to examine all accompts and
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Vouchers very particularly to see that the charges are proper and reasonable to
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direct the payment thereof and see that they are paid accordingly to see that all
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Rents Arrears Legacies and Revenues of Both Hospitals be duly applied for and
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received and if not to direct the same to be done and in all other respect to
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enforce a due observance of the standing Rules and Orders, and report from time
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to time to the Court if any of them prove in effectual or are infringed upon with
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their Opinion as to the same to guard against and abolish as much as
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possible all allowances perquisites and other petty advantages over and above
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the liberal stated salaries paid by the Charities to the Officers Servants and others
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and generally to attend to and promote the Interests of the Hospitals. If keep
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Minutes of all proceedings and take care that the substance and true sense
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thereof be reported to every General Court. Thirdly a Committee of Auditors
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to consist of the President 7 Governors
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who have contributed last that charity
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who are not of any other Committee (and the present Auditor General) 4 to
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be a Quorum 3 Governors to go off annually and to be replaced by 3 other Governors
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This Committee to meet the last wednesday in every three Months in order to
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inspect and audit the Items and Totals of all such accompts as have been
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paid and particularly to see that they have been directed by a proper authority
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