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February 1795
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Brought Over£15..10s..9½d
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For Mr Speak
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Pike
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Furnished Hemp 215d.£0..6s..0d
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For Geo: Wilkinson. Furnished 14. 7. on Wool to spin at 1d prs Rain £0..12s..0d
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For Mr Gallott
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Noble Street
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Furnished Wool to be spun£0..9s..3d
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For Picking
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Oakum
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4 Ton at £3} £12..0s..0d
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£28..18s..0½d
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There can be little doubt of the Taskmaster being able to
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manufacture from Raw Materials every thing that may be wanted for the
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apparel of the Prisoners, a few trifling Articles excepted and perhaps it might
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be proper in the present stage of the business to direct his attention as much
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as possible to this object: He appears to have skill and knowledge in the
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manufactures usually carried on in Work Houses; He has a great desire to
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exert himself so as to give satisfaction and upon the whole he appears to
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possess many of these requisites which constitutes a good Task Master.
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No specific Agreement has yet been made with him further than at
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promise of thirty shillings a week while he remained on Trial - It now
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remains for the Court to consider whether they will appoint him to the
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situation of Task master or look for another. If he is fixed permanently
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he will immediately move into the Prison, and reside there constantly in a
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Room fitted up for the Task master near the Store Room, as yet he has
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received no Wages - an Order to pay him what is due will no doubt
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occur to be proper.
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Mr Gamson states it as his opinion that the Prisoners would
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work with a vast deal more vigor and good will did they know that they
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were to receive a part of the Earnings of their labour - A Declaration of
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this sort authorized to be made to them by the Court might perhapes have a
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good effect and might prevent Mechanics from concealing their particular.
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Traders so as to check the introduction or increase of more productive labour.
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It has been heretofore impossible to class the Prisoners Agreeable to the
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Rules laid down in the twenty seventh and twenty eighth and twenty ninth
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Articles not will it be very practicable until the System is more matured to
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do-it compleatly.
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