above the amount of Twenty Shillings without previously Consulting the
Board of Assisstants thereupon and an Order being made and entered upon
their Minutes for the same And that it is impossible from the Multiplicity
of Business at the Monthly Audit to read and Examine the several Bills
for such Provision Cloathing Furniture Repairs and Materials with
accuracy That all Bills Claims and Accounts of whatever amount
Nature or Kind soever to be Contracted or incurred after the passing of these
Regulations be brought to the Board of Assisstants and there Read and
Examined And if Approved an Order made for the payment thereof and
that no Bill so incurred be paid or discharged till so Approved and
such Order made And that when so Approved that the same shall be
discharged in Regular Order as passed without preference to any one
Sixthly That the Matron do Visit every Ward in the House daily
between the Hours of 9 and 10 o Clock in the Forenoon and do Cause
the Beds to be Regularly made and the Rooms passages and other
parts of the House to be swept every day before Dinner- washed twice
a Week in Summer and Once in Winter - And that the Children be all
Combed washed and Cleaned every Day by 10 o Clock and Callsechised
twice a Week Vizt Thursday and Sunday Afternoons by the Master
or Mistress who teaches them
Seventhly That the Master do take Care that such as are Sick or Lame
be attended by use Apothecary
and do see that they follow his directions and
inform the Overseers when they are fit to be set to Work or be discharged
Eighthly That the Master do keep the Key of the Coal Cellar and that
he do Measure out a Sufficient Quantity every Morning and that no Fired
be had in any of the Wards except the Sick Ward after the First of May
unless the Overseers shall give Special directions for the same
Ninthly, That he do see all Fires out and the People in Bed by
Eight O'Clock at Night and that no Candles be burning except in the
Sick Wards after that Hour
Tenthly, That neither Master or Mistress do quit the House without
Leave of the Overseers nor that neither they or any other Officer be out of
the House after Ten o'Clock at Night on pain of being discharged