Continued, Thursday 31st. Jany. 1799 .

Report.
Select Committee
Public will
aid if they see &
[..] in a earnest

Hospital for the original purposes of the institution, as
for as they will extend, and are required; And in case
they prove inadequate, and more is wanted for purposes so
useful, the Public, being duly impressed, with the idea ,
that the Governors, are Seriously and earnestly engaged. in
so great and necessary a Work, your Committee has no doubt
but that the literality of individuals will soon supply the
deficiency.

prudence
caution
recommended

That in the arrangement and execution of any Plan
for appropriating with greater effect the Estates & Revenues
of the House of Bridewell, it will be necessary to procee'd with
caution as to the practicability of the proposed measures,
and with foresight as to the competency of the means for
carrying them effectually into execution; leaving the further
extension of the Plan to future consideration, when it's
practicability and expence, shall have been experimentally
ascertained, but so as not to extend it beyond the income of
the Charity.

livenesse of rest
payments for five
years past.

That, upon examining. Mr. Hudson the Steward and
Receiver of the Rents of Bridewell Hospital, it appears
that upon an Average, for five Years last past there has
been annually received by Rents, Dividends, Annuities and
Benefactions (exclusive of Lock's and Fowke's Gift) the Sum
of £4451..0..4: and that there has been annually expended,
during the like period upon an average, the several Sums
following, Vizt. Arts Masters, and Apprentices (exclusive
of their Houses, Repairs, and Taxes) £192..6..10¾; salaries,
Gratuities, & Clothing Beadles, £1,047..3..11¼, Taxes, Repairs,
and Rent of Burial Ground, £423.0..11; for Printing, Coals
Stationary, Tradesmens Bills, and two Annual Feasts,
£331..9..9¼; and in the Maintenance of Vagrants, the Sum
of £701..3..10¾, amounting together to the Sum of £2,695..5..5,
which being deducted from the annual average Receipt, leaves
a Balance of £1755..14..11. so that your Committee is of opinion,
that