Davis and Whitfield he has the benefit of a larger allowance by 12 lb
in the Ton than is usually made Your Committee are of Opinion
that Mr. Hall do proceed to employ the Prisoners in his Custody in
the picking Oakum under his Agreement with Messrs Davis and
Whitfield
Your Committee further Report
That being informed in Order to give Satisfaction in
the Picking of the Oakum and to be enabled to dispatch a much greater
Quantity a proper Shed wherein to dry the Oakum when Picked and
Ware Rooms to preserve the same form Waste and damage was
absolutely necessary to be Erected in the Prison Your Committee
Ordered Mr. Rogers the Surveyor to make a proper plan and Estimate
of such Erections And Mr. Rogers having produced a plan of a
Shed with Ware Rooms for these purposes together with an Estimate
of the Expence of Erecting the same which amounted to £85 Your
Committee Resolved that as no plan is Yet adapted for the
Effectual Separation and Employment of the Convicts committed to
the House of Correction
at Clerkenwell
as required by the Act of the
Sixteenth of George the Third entitled An Act to authorize for a
"limited time the punishment by hard Labour of Offenders who
"for certain Crimes are or shall become liable to be Transported to
"any of His Majestys Colonies and Plantations" to recommend the
Erection of a Shed in the Garden belonging to the said House of
Correction according to the Plan and Estimate produced by the
Surveyor as a Temporary and necessary building which may be
removed and Converted to other Uses when a more enlarged Plan
for the Confinement and Employment of the persons imprisoned
in the House of Correction
shall be Resolved on
Your Committee further Report
That being informed it will be necessary in the
prosecution of the Employment of the Convicts in the picking Oakum
to have some Tables and Benches fixed in the Men and Womens
Yards on which they may Work The Committee are of Opinion
that proper Tables and Benches for the purpose should be forthwith
procured under the direction of Mr. Rogers and that things hereunder
mentioned be also done and procured under the direction of the Governor
of the House of Correction Vizt. To have the Seales and two half Hundred
Weights belonging to the County now in the Custody of the Keeper examined
and Repaired Four half Hundred weights and fourteen pounds in
smaller Weights a Set of Shears for weighing the Oakum Six Three
Shillings