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