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Continued, Thursday
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31st. Jany. 1799
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Report.
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Select Committee
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Public will
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aid if they see &
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in a earnest
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Hospital for the original purposes of the institution, as
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for as they will extend, and are required; And in case
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they prove inadequate, and more is wanted for purposes so
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useful, the Public, being duly impressed, with the
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,
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that the Governors, are Seriously and earnestly engaged. in
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so great and necessary a Work, your Committee has no doubt
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but that the literality of individuals will soon supply the
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deficiency.
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prudence
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caution
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recommended
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That in the arrangement and execution of any Plan
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for appropriating with greater effect the Estates & Revenues
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of the House of Bridewell, it will be necessary to procee'd with
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caution as to the practicability of the proposed measures,
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and with foresight as to the competency of the means for
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carrying them effectually into execution; leaving the further
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extension of the Plan to future consideration, when it's
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practicability and expence, shall have been experimentally
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ascertained, but so as not to extend it beyond the income of
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the Charity.
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livenesse of rest
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payments for five
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years past.
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That, upon examining. Mr. Hudson the Steward and
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Receiver of the Rents of Bridewell Hospital, it appears
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that upon an Average, for five Years last past there has
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been annually received by Rents, Dividends, Annuities and
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Benefactions (exclusive of Lock's and Fowke's Gift) the Sum
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of £4451..0..4: and that there has been annually expended,
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during the like period upon an average, the several Sums
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following, Vizt. Arts Masters, and Apprentices (exclusive
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of their Houses, Repairs, and Taxes) £192..6..10¾; salaries,
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Gratuities, & Clothing Beadles, £1,047..3..11¼, Taxes, Repairs,
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and Rent of Burial Ground, £423.0..11; for Printing, Coals
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Stationary, Tradesmens Bills, and two Annual Feasts,
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£331..9..9¼; and in the Maintenance of Vagrants, the Sum
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of £701..3..10¾, amounting together to the Sum of £2,695..5..5,
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which being deducted from the annual average Receipt, leaves
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a Balance of £1755..14..11. so that your Committee is of opinion,
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