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<p n="3373">Continued, Thursday, <rs type="date" id="BBBRMG20210_date271">31st. Jany. 1799</rs>
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<p n="3374"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Reported<lb></lb>
Select Committee</note>
<lb></lb>
greater degree of real reform and of profitable labour wod.<lb></lb>
be obtained; and lastly, if Boys and Girls could be taught<lb></lb>
some easy and useful employment in a shorter period, more<lb></lb>
young Persons might be endower with the means of an honest<lb></lb>
livelihood than can be upon the present mode of an<lb></lb>
Apprenticeship for Seven Years.</p>
<p n="3375"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">No appearnce<lb></lb>
benefit upon of<lb></lb>
epresent system</note>
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<p n="3376"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">ye. great defect<lb></lb>
no distive him in<lb></lb>
food or treatment<lb></lb>
bety eieled indust<lb></lb>
rious. the proflijate<lb></lb>
dwell disored</note>
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<p n="3377"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Prisns. no share<lb></lb>
Jearnings</note>
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<p n="3378"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">refer to Dorchester<lb></lb>
Oxford & <rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20210_occ4334">glourester</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20210_occ4335">Houses of Correctn</rs>
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. of<lb></lb>
whene diet is<lb></lb>
in purportion to<lb></lb>
earnings & behaviour<lb></lb>
Print. whene<lb></lb>
share of Carning<lb></lb>
afforded</note>
<lb></lb>
Your Committee observed with great concern that there<lb></lb>
is no appearance and very little prospect of any reformer<lb></lb>
amendment being effected upon the Present system in any<lb></lb>
of the Persons in Bridewell, and that some of them, of the<lb></lb>
Women at least, are likely to continue for some time an<lb></lb>
expence to the establishment. Stappears that one great<lb></lb>
defect of the present system is, that in Bridewell there is<lb></lb>
no distinction, either in food or in treatment, between the<lb></lb>
Edle and the industrious and between the profligate and<lb></lb>
the well disposed; but that those who are capable and<lb></lb>
would be willin to work, receive the same dict, the same<lb></lb>
unpositable task, and the same uniform measurer with<lb></lb>
those who persevere in the disgraceful resolution of living,<lb></lb>
as the drones of Society on the labour of others. It appears<lb></lb>
also that the Prisoners receive no Share, whatever of their<lb></lb>
carnings, either given at the time as a present gratification,<lb></lb>
and inducement to exertion, or husbanded for them till they<lb></lb>
quit the House and then applied as the means of placing<lb></lb>
them in a way of livelihood. Your Commitee however.is<lb></lb>
aware that the present produce of their labour is not of an<lb></lb>
amount to allow them any benefit out of it, at the same time<lb></lb>
it cannot help referring to the regulations of the Houses of<lb></lb>
Correction at Dorchester, Oxford, and Gloucester, and to those<lb></lb>
of some other well regulated establishments of that Kind,<lb></lb>
where the gradations of diet are in proportion to the<lb></lb>
carnings and good behaviour of the Prisoner; and where<lb></lb>
a large and liberal Share, of his earnings is reserved for him<lb></lb>
to set him off on guitting the House in an advantageous course</p>
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