Continued, Thursday, 31st.. Jany.. 1799 .

Report
Select Commitee

Their duties
a objects defined

in the arrangement of any measures for the application
of the Revenues of Bridewell, it will be essential to divide
the several objects of attention between different Sub. Committee
to be elected out of such General Committee, and to be
independant of each other; each responsible to the General
Committee as that Committee will be answer able to the
General Court.That the Sub. Committees should consist.
of five Persons each. one of whom should be the Visitor
for the time and two sufficient for dispatch of Business
at the prefixe'd times for the Meeting to the Committee.
That, in the appointment of these Committees, those
Governors should be Preferred whose local Situations and
Personal inclination would be most likely to secure a
regular and convenient attendance, and that in case of,
any Member of the Sub Committee declaring that it is
not convenient for him to attend, a new Member be
thereupon appointed from the General Commitee.

That Minutes be made of every act done by such
Committees respectively, with the reasons thereof and that
the Minutes of every Sub-Committee, be read for approbation
at the next Meeting of the General Committee, be read for approbation
Minutes of all such Committees be read (if called for) at the
next General Court of the Hospitalls for its approbation,
and that, subject to the regulations of the Hospital , and
to the orders of the General Committee the Sub Committees
have a discretion as to the Matters committed to them
in every Measurer, which with the reasons, shall have
been so entered on their Minutes.

Case of "Uneducated
"Youth advancing to
"maturity without the
"means of livelihood"

Boys

That, with regard to the occupation & improvement
of one of the original Objects of Bridewell "uneducated
"Youth advancing to Maturity without the means of
"livelihood"; it appears to your Committee, that as to Boys
more benefit may be obtained. by preparing Clothing and
fitting them out for the Navy, or for Service, so for Manufactures,
than