Continued Thursday Novr. 30th. 1797

directions for providing suitable Furniture and accommodations
for the New Prison.

That the Temporary Porter and Porters Man should
occupy the Houses prepared for them at each end of the
New Prison.

That the Surveyor should give directions for making a
Sink at the South East end of the lower Gallery.

And that the Steward should provide a sufficient number
of Beds and Bedding similar to those used in the Womens
Prison.

That the Committee had taken into consideration the
referrence from the General Court of the 27th. April last
"To Consider whether any mode of employing the Prisoners
"committed to this Hospital can be adopted so as in future
"to render their employment more productive to the
"Charity" And were unanimously of Opinion, that no
better mode of employing the Prisoners committed to
this Hospital had presented it self to the Committee, than
beating of Hemp and cutting ropes and picking the same
into Oakum.

The Committee then came to several Resolutions
respecting the future Management of the Prisoners
and the employment of the Porter, Beadles and Porter's
Man.

The Minutes of the Bethlem Committee of the following
days were read and confirmed whereby it appeared

Wednesday Augst. 16th

That the Committee had Ordered different Tradesmons