Continued, Thursday, 31st.. Jany. 1799 .

Report.
Select Committee.

Profitable as to allow them any compensation or
encouragement out of it, or of a nature to fit them to
obtain their own livelihood when they are discharged
from the House.

The difficultier
of obaining labour
for rich particular
objects. considened

That your Committee is a ware of the difficulty of
obtaining Labour for such a discription of Persons, as
those usually confined in Bridewell, but, relying on
the examples of success that have been afforded in
similar places they do not despair of the consiquences
of an attempt to introduce into Bridewell a system of
labour that shall be productive of emolument to the
establishment, and to all the individals employed in
it, and of benefit to the Persons employed, by enabling
them when discharged, to earn their livelehood in future:
That the your Committee thinks it not proper to despair
of that which has been effected in other instances where
the attempt has been Properly made yet they conceive
it is imprudent to form too great expectations of the
facility of the undertaking or of the completeness of
the success that may attend it.

The Recived of the
sevl Commitments &
terms of apprentices pips
unfavourable as prest.
to d interest of
Hope of themselves
the objects.

alterations in
rich period
suggerted

That, a considerable loss and inconvenience is
occasioned by the precise periods for which the different
Persons in Bridewell are fixed there Vizt. the Vagrants
committed for seven Days, the Disorderly Persons. generally
for a Month and the Apprentices, bound to their Trade
for Seven Years.That if the Vagrants could be sent
home as soon as convenient a considerable expence of
Maintenance would be save; and our Committee
observes, that in so short a Period, their labour is capable
of little or no profit, and they cannot receive any
improvement or reform:That it disorderly Persons
were committed for a longer Period than they now are
with a discretionary power of shortening that period
in case of their good behaviour, and of the means of
employment being afforded them out of the House, a
greater