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Continued, Thursday,
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31st.. Jany. 1799
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Report.
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Select Committee.
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Profitable as to allow them any compensation or
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encouragement out of it, or of a nature to fit them to
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obtain their own livelihood when they are discharged
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from the House.
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The difficultier
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of obaining labour
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for rich particular
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objects. considened
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That your Committee is a ware of the difficulty of
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obtaining Labour for such a discription of Persons, as
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those usually confined in Bridewell, but, relying on
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the examples of success that have been afforded in
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similar places they do not despair of the consiquences
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of an attempt to introduce into Bridewell a system of
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labour that shall be productive of emolument to the
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establishment, and to all the individals employed in
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it, and of benefit to the Persons employed, by enabling
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them when discharged, to earn their livelehood in future:
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That the your Committee thinks it not proper to despair
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of that which has been effected in other instances where
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the attempt has been Properly made yet they conceive
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it is imprudent to form too great expectations of the
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facility of the undertaking or of the completeness of
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the success that may attend it.
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The Recived of the
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sevl Commitments &
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terms of apprentices pips
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unfavourable as prest.
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to d interest of
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Hope of themselves
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the objects.
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alterations in
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rich period
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suggerted
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That, a considerable loss and inconvenience is
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occasioned by the precise periods for which the different
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Persons in Bridewell are fixed there Vizt. the Vagrants
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committed for seven Days, the Disorderly Persons. generally
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for a Month and the Apprentices, bound to their Trade
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for Seven Years.That if the Vagrants could be sent
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home as soon as convenient a considerable expence of
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Maintenance would be save; and our Committee
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observes, that in so short a Period, their labour is capable
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of little or no profit, and they cannot receive any
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improvement or reform:That it disorderly Persons
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were committed for a longer Period than they now are
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with a discretionary power of shortening that period
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in case of their good behaviour, and of the means of
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employment being afforded them out of the House, a
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