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At a Prison Committee Wednesday
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9th. January 1793
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Thomas Nixon
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The Minutes of the Last Committee were read.
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The Memorandums of the several Sub Committees were read.
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By the Calender of Prisoners there appeared to be
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16 Men
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Commee take into further
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Conson the reference for
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rendering the Charity as
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respectable as possible.
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Resolutions.The Committee took into further consideration the order of reference from the General Court
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for rendering the Charity and Prison of
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as respectable and as extensively useful as
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possible and agreed to the following resolutions.
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Prisoners ought to be Kept
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in Solitary Confinemt. Ct.That all Prisoners who are sent to this Hospital for punishment ought to be kept in
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solitary confinement and a reasonable portion of Work assigned them to perform everyday.
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Vagrants to be passed,
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not to be confined in
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Solitary Cells Ct.That all Vagrants committed to this Hospital to be passed to their respective Parishes
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be not confined in solitary Cells but that they be obliged to perform the same proportion
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of work as the Prisoners.
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to be fitted
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up, for Setting to Work
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Persons inclined 'till better
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provided forThat to prevent the return of such Prisoners as are discharged to their old habits of
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pilfering and stealing Workshops be filled up where such Prisoners as chuse to work till
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they can get into better employment shall receive the full amount of their daily earnings
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making such allowance for the provisions of the House as the Prison Committee shall from
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time to time think fit.
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Buildings to be alteredThat to carry the above resolutions into effect they are of opinion that the whole of the
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North and West side of the Inner Court including the Womens Prison be converted into
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Ranges of seperate Apartments for solitary confinement and Labor The Ground Floor to be
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appropriated for general Workshops with a Gallery of Communication and inspection
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in the
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back part
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through the whole adapting such apartments as may be most convenient for the
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residence of the Servants.
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Surveyor to examine &
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Report thereupon.That the Surveyor be directed to examine and report to the Committee as soon as possible
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how far the parts above mentioned
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capable of being so adapted with an Estimate of
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the expence.
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And in order to obtain
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session of the said North and West side of the Quadrangle
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the Committee are further of
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