May 1797.

Signed previous to Richard Carters< no role > Admission into
Bethlem Hospital but had not yet been returned duly
Signed and attested as the Rules of that Hospital require

The Prisoners were Ordered to be immediately
employed in Lime Whiting the Walls and Cells of the
Prison a proper Quantity of Materials being provided
for that purpose by which a very great serving will be
made to the County.-A specimen of Mary
Palmons Thread< no role > was produced to the Committee
by which it appeared that she is well qualified to
teach the Female Prisoners to spin and the Committee
being of opinion that it may be of great future benefit
to them that they should learn to spin, and it
appearing also that they can earn as much by
spinning as by the ordinary employment of
picking Oakum-Ordered That they be
immediately set to Work in spinning

The Governor laid before the Committee an
Estimate of the Expences of cloathing and maintenance
of a Prisoner by which it appeared that with an
Allowance of Meat Bread Etc. 4 times a Week and
Bread only the other 3 Days, the Weekly Expence
of each Prisoner was 2s..5d. or 4d. Pr. Day and one
penny over, in the Year £6..5s..8d. That the cloathing
and Washing for each Prisoner amounts to 3..12..-
Total Expence of feeding and cloathing £9..17s..8d
the Average earnings of the Prisoners are equal to
the Expence of their Feeding, the Cloathing them is an
Extra Expence to the County.

The Governor Reported That he had found in
searching a Vagrant from Lambeth Street Whitechapel
concealed in a variety of small Parcels in his Cloaths
the sum of £8..10..(5 Guas. & ½ of it in Gold) and on
searching another 2½ Guas. a Counter resembling a
Guinea and 12½d in Copper. all which Sums have been
returned to them on their departure from the Prison

Mr.. Aris Reported that a poor Boy named Pybus