Payment of the sd. Sum may know of them whether they have or do
receive it in wt manner and whether they have any Complaint
on this Head that so the Court may when they take the Keepers Bill
under Consideration be the better able to judge as to the Truth and
Reality of his Demands & the severall Hems thereof. And your
Comittee wou'd also propose yt the Keepr be particularly asked
on every such Saturday wether any of the Prisoners lay out ye
said 1d a Day or any part of it in Gin that so the Court may it
they think proper forbid Payment of the sd. 1d a Day for the fu-
-ture to any such Persons & yt the Prisoners have Notice
from time to time yt such Allowance will be taken away
from them if they so lay out their 1d P Day or any part of
it. And whereas is abovementioned to those who are com-
-mitted to Labour the Keepr allows a Quartern Loaf among
eight your Committee are of Opinion the sd. Keepr shou'd continue
that Allowance to those who Labour not wth standing the 1d a Day
as the sd. Allowance is but small & as the Gain arising from
their Labour is the sd. Keepers. And here your Comittee must ob-
-serve yt tho Blocks & Beethes have been according to the Or-
-der of this Court provided for the sd. Prison, yet it appeared on
Examination yt very little Labour had been for some time past
demanded of the Prisoners or performed by them the Reason
given by the Keepr was yt Hemp had been very dear but
your Comittee were of Opinion & so they told ye sd. Keepr yt it
was expected he shou'd purchase Hemp & keep his Prisoners to La-
-bour otherwise the Sentence of the Court wou'd be often by ye
Officer partly lessened & greatly eluded & that if he was not care-
-full in this Respect for the future he wou'd be complained of
to the Court but on his promising that a sufficient Quantity of
Hemp shou'd be immediately purchased yr Comittes do not now
lay it before the Court by way of Complaint, Your Committee fur-
-ther leave it to the Consideration of the Court whether 1d P Day
be a sufficient Allowance to a Prisoner when sick. All wch.
is submitted to the Consideration of the Court

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