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<p n="946">May 1797.</p>
<p n="947">Signed previous to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55611_n947-1">Richard Carters</rs>
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Admission into<lb></lb>
Bethlem Hospital but had not yet been returned duly<lb></lb>
Signed and attested as the Rules of that Hospital require</p>
<p n="948">The Prisoners were Ordered to be immediately<lb></lb>
employed in Lime Whiting the Walls and Cells of the<lb></lb>
Prison a proper Quantity of Materials being provided<lb></lb>
for that purpose by which a very great serving will be<lb></lb>
made to the County.-A specimen of Mary<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55611_n948-1">Palmons Thread</rs>
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was produced to the Committee<lb></lb>
by which it appeared that she is well qualified to<lb></lb>
teach the Female Prisoners to spin and the Committee<lb></lb>
being of opinion that it may be of great future benefit<lb></lb>
to them that they should learn to spin, and it<lb></lb>
appearing also that they can earn as much by<lb></lb>
spinning as by the ordinary employment of<lb></lb>
picking Oakum-Ordered That they be<lb></lb>
immediately set to Work in spinning</p>
<p n="949">The Governor laid before the Committee an<lb></lb>
Estimate of the Expences of cloathing and maintenance<lb></lb>
of a Prisoner by which it appeared that with an<lb></lb>
Allowance of Meat Bread Etc. 4 times a Week and<lb></lb>
Bread only the other 3 Days, the Weekly Expence<lb></lb>
of each Prisoner was 2s..5d. or 4d. Pr. Day and one<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55611_geo807">penny over,</rs>
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in the Year £6..5s..8d. That the cloathing<lb></lb>
and Washing for each Prisoner amounts to 3..12..-<lb></lb>
Total Expence of feeding and cloathing £9..17s..8d<lb></lb>
the Average earnings of the Prisoners are equal to<lb></lb>
the Expence of their Feeding, the Cloathing them is an<lb></lb>
Extra Expence to the County.</p>
<p n="950">The Governor Reported That he had found in<lb></lb>
searching a Vagrant from Lambeth Street <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55611_geo808">Whitechapel</rs>
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<lb></lb>
concealed in a variety of small Parcels in his Cloaths<lb></lb>
the sum of £8..10..(5 Guas. & ½ of it in Gold) and on<lb></lb>
searching another 2½ Guas. a Counter resembling a<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55611_geo809">Guinea</rs>
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and 12½d in Copper. all which Sums have been<lb></lb>
returned to them on their departure from the Prison</p>
<p n="951">Mr.. Aris Reported that a poor Boy named Pybus</p>
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