Continued Thursday 31st. January 1793
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That to prevent the return of such Prisoners as are discharged to their old habits of
pilfering and stealing workshops be fitted up where such prisoners as chose to
work tell they can get into better employment shall receive the full amount of their
daily earnings making such allowance for the provisions of the House as the
Prison Committee shall from time to time think fit.
That to carry the above resolutions into effect they are of opinion that the whole of the
North and West side of the Inner Court including the Womens prison be converted
into Ranges of seperate Apartments for solitory confinement and labor the Ground
Floor to be appropirated for general Workshops with a Gallery of communication and
inspection through the whole adapting such apartments as may be most conveinent
for the residence of the Servants.
That the Surveyor be directed to examine and report to the Committee as soon as possible
how far the parts above mentioned are capable of being so adapted with an
Estimate of the expence
And in order to obtain possession of the said North and West side of the Quadrangle.
the Committee are further of opinion
That all the Artsmasters
who now inhabit that part of the Court shall absolutely be
removed on or before Midsummer next
That Robert Smart< no role >
who is a narrow Weaver
in the same branch as the two Owens
and has but one Apprentice whose time expires in December 1794 and who now
wishes to be discharged should absolutely leave the Hospital at Midsummer next
That Thomas Reynolds< no role >
who is a Broad Weaver
and who has one Apprentice whose
time expires in December 1797 be accommodated with apartments on the other
side of the Court.
That Thomas Whitaker< no role >
who has one Apprentice till July 1795 George Sanderson< no role >
who
has one Apprentice till February 1796 and Thomas Allam< no role >
who has two
Apprentices till April 1795 and August 1797 being all Taylors
shall
determine among themselves which of them shall remain in the Hospital and be
accommodated with apartments on the other side of the Court
And the President conceiving that the proceedings of the Prison Committee since the last
Court were of great importance to the welfare of the institution had thought proper
to summon an extra Committee (the 24th. of January) to give them an opportunity
of reconsidering the Minutes of their proceedings previous to the next Court and
the Committee having again deliberated thereon agreed unanimously to confirm
the same.