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<p n="157"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">That<lb></lb>
5 </note>
All Vagrants committed to this House to be passed to their respective Parishes bend<lb></lb>
confined in Solitary Cells but that they be obliged to perform the same proportion of work as the p<obscured></obscured>
</p>
<p n="158"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">That<lb></lb>
6</note>
All Prisoners coming to this House be immediately stripped and clothed in the Uniform hereafte<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
be fixed upon which they shall wear during the whole of their continuance in Prison and the<lb></lb>
their own Clothes be washed and laid by to be given them when they are discharged.</p>
<p n="159"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">That<lb></lb>
7</note>
every Prisoner and Vagrant shall each have a Straw Matras and Coverlid, and shall<lb></lb>
be obliged to undress themselves every Evening.</p>
<p n="160"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">That<lb></lb>
8</note>
Prayers should be read twice a Day to the Vagrants and Apprentices especially and<lb></lb>
occasionally to the Prisoners in Solitary confinement.</p>
<p n="161"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">That<lb></lb>
9</note>
One of the Rooms at present occupied by the Men Prisoners be appropriated to the<lb></lb>
reception of Men and Boys Vagrants where they are to Dine and Work and that<lb></lb>
another Room be filled up for them to sleep in</p>
<p n="162"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">That<lb></lb>
10</note>
in the manner one of the Rooms at present occupied by the female prisoners be appropriated<lb></lb>
for the reception of Women and Girls Vagrants where they are to Dine and Work and that<lb></lb>
another Room shall be fitted up for them to sleep in</p>
<p n="163"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">That<lb></lb>
11</note>
the two Infirmaries be provided with Eight Beds in each and proper necessaries for such<lb></lb>
of the Prisoners as may be adjudged by the Surgeon and Apothecary too ill to Sleep in<lb></lb>
their respective Rooms.</p>
<p n="164"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">That<lb></lb>
12 </note>
to prevent the return of such Prisoners who are discharged to their old habits of pilfering an<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Stealing.<del>Two</del>
Workshops be filled up where each Prisoner chusing to Work till they can get<lb></lb>
into better employment, shall receive the full amount of their daily earnings.</p>
<p n="165"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">That<lb></lb>
13</note>
the whole of the North side & West of the Inner Court be converted into seperate Cells for the<lb></lb>
Prisoners except such Apartments as are occupied by the Servants of the House; the<lb></lb>
Artsmasters to be removed to the South West side of the Court.</p>
<p n="166"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">That<lb></lb>
14</note>
the Ground Floor be converted into Workshops and Store Rooms as shall from time to time<lb></lb>
be found necessary.</p>
<p n="167"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">That<lb></lb>
15</note>
a Wall be built to divide the Inner Court, together with a cross Wall for the purpose of making<lb></lb>
two Yards to air the Men and Women Prisoners seperately</p>
<p n="168"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">That<lb></lb>
16</note>
The Surveyor be direded to survey and prepare a plan of the above alterations with an estimate of the expence for the<lb></lb>
approbation of the Committee.</p>
<p n="169">The Committee also took into consideration some extracts<lb></lb>
from the Several acts of Parliament sent by Mr. Bigg respecting<lb></lb>
Vagrants & recommending the said extracts to be painted on Boards and fixed<lb></lb>
up in the Prisons-</p>
<p n="170">Posponed any Resolution upon the Suggestions of Mr. Till<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
until the next<lb></lb>
Meeting of the Prison Committee</p>
<p n="171"> <rs type="persName" id="GLBRMB20102_n171-1">Robt Hunter</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="GLBRMB20102_n171-2">Jno. Read</rs>
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