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<p n="237">Extract from the Court Book and standing Rules and Orders</p>
<p n="238">Resolved that the institution of Artsmasters and Apprentices ought to be<lb></lb>
abolished as recommended by the Select Committee of Enquiry in their Report<lb></lb>
of the 16th. May last</p>
<p n="239">The Prison Committee to consist of 12 Governors 3 to be a quorum<lb></lb>
4 Governors to go off, and to be replaced by 4 other Governors every year to<lb></lb>
meet the second Wednesday in every Month and a Sub-Committee once<lb></lb>
a Week in order to visit the Prisons.</p>
<p n="240">Their first business is to carry into immediate effect in the best manner<lb></lb>
possible the proposed reform respecting Artsmasters Apprentices and <rs type="placeName" id="GLBRMB20101_geo7">Bridewell</rs>
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with all new arrangements as to the prisons and prisoners and to form<lb></lb>
regulations adapted thereto and generally from time to time afterwards to<lb></lb>
inspect and regulate all matters appertaining to the prisons and prisoners<lb></lb>
in such a manner as to render the charity of <rs type="placeName" id="GLBRMB20101_geo8">Bridewell</rs>
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as respectable<lb></lb>
and as extensively useful as possible conformable to the beneficent intentions<lb></lb>
of the Royal Founder and our ancestors.</p>
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