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Continued Thursday
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Novr. 30th. 1797
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directions for providing suitable Furniture and accommodations
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for the New Prison.
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That the Temporary Porter and Porters Man should
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occupy the Houses prepared for them at each end of the
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New Prison.
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That the Surveyor should give directions for making a
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Sink at the South East end of the lower Gallery.
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And that the Steward should provide a sufficient number
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of Beds and Bedding similar to those used in the Womens
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Prison.
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That the Committee had taken into consideration the
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referrence from the General Court of the 27th. April last
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"To Consider whether any mode of employing the Prisoners
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"committed to this Hospital can be adopted so as in future
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"to render their employment more productive to the
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"Charity" And were unanimously of Opinion, that no
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better mode of employing the Prisoners committed to
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this Hospital had presented it self to the Committee, than
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beating of Hemp and cutting ropes and picking the same
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into Oakum.
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The Committee then came to several Resolutions
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respecting the future Management of the Prisoners
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and the employment of the Porter, Beadles and Porter's
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Man.
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The Minutes of the Bethlem Committee of the following
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days were read and confirmed whereby it appeared
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Wednesday Augst. 16th
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That the Committee had Ordered different Tradesmons
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