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Continued Thursday 21st: Novr: 1793.
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Reportand Apprentices might be made to obtain greater advantages
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to at least four times the number if bestowed in Apprentice
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Fees to the Sons and Daughters of poor but deserving
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parents who might (on the presentation of the Governors
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in a rotation similar to Christs Hospital) be bound to
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industrious Tradesmen and Artificers likely to keep them
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above want and to enable them to get a livelihood on the
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expiration of their terms and suitable rewards might be
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added if necessary to encourage the good behaviour of the Masters
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as well as Apprentices; by this method the Boys would learn
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a greater variety of Trades, and be so much dispersed that
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the irregularity of a few would not affect the remainder:
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and the proportionable expence would be very much reduced.
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But whether it is within the power of the Governors, whether
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totally clear of objection, or whether a better method may not
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be devised we conceive to be questions deserving fuller
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investigation.
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In that branch of the institution which respects
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the Vagrant, destitute and Criminal Poor, we meet with less
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difficulty; because we understand that solitary Confinement
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for a limitted time to a certain degree and with a moderate
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quantity of labour has been proved by experience the best
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reformer of the Vices punished by Houses of Correction but
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as all the consequences of introducing such a regulation unto
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the
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cannot immediately be foreseen we
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shall content ourselves at present with recommending to this
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Honourable Court
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FirstThat the House on the North side of the Quadrangle
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adjoining the Mens Prison be fitted up and properly secured
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under the direction of the Prison Committee for the Solitary
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confinement and employment of such of the Male Prisoners
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(except Vagrants to be passed to their respective Parishes) as
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shall be directed by the said Committee giving the preference
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to those who may be most likely to be reformed thereby.
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SecondThat the House on the West side of the Quadrangle
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adjoining the Womens Prison and lately occupied by the
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Matron be fitted up in the same manner for the confinement
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