Continued, Thursday, 31st. Jany. 1799 .

Report
Select Committee

that by a Judicious and economical use of the Funds of the
Charity, not only Vagrants may be maintained but all the other
beneficent intentions of our pious, and benevolent Ancestors
may be attained without interfering with the Funds arising
from Locks and Fowkes Benefactions.

To
make use of
exciting accommo
dation and
present officers

That, in the forming an new arrangement at Bridewell,
it will be proper to make use of the present existing accommodation
and of the Persons now on the establishment, as far as may be
done, and not to remove any person or vary anything in the
House if such person or Thing can be effectually, and properly
applied towards the execution of the original plan of
Bridewell: which, your Committee apprehends must be adhered
to as far as is practicable and its benefits are wanted by that part
of the Community for which it was intended: and that by so
making use of such accommodation, and Persons the Corporation
may save expence in the outset, and avoid, as to individuals,
who have been long on their establishment, the dismission of them
in case they prove willing, and able to assist effectually and
usefully in promoting the objects of the institution.

no reflections
intended on
individual,
but defects
of system until
be them

That, your Committee has thought it necessary to inquire
what effects have been produced in Bridewell by the present
expenditure, but not with the View or, consequence of criminating
any individual, as they have the satisfaction in being able to
say, that my existing defects in Bridewell, arise, from an
improper system of operation rather than from the misconduct
of any Person employed, and that the blame, if any, is to be
imputed to the system of management, and not to the Persons to
whom the execution has been entrusted. But as the defects of
that system cannot be properly corrected, without their being
detailed and explained, your Committee, has thought it necessary
to go into an inquiry on that subject, and to state to the Court
the effects of that inquiry.

That, your Committee finds, that instead of the two Classes
of Persons mentioned in the Declaration, Vizt. Task Masters.
and