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<p n="830">Continued Wednesday <rs type="date" id="BBBRMG20210_date38">8th. May 1793</rs>
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<p n="831">as they shall chuse to appoint to report their proceedings thereon to the Committee</p>
<p n="832">That the Committee had ordered Mr. <rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20210_occ1138">Treasurer</rs>
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to purchase £1000 3 per Cent reduced<lb></lb>
annuities</p>
<p n="833">That the Committee had approved of a Draft of a Lease from the Mayor Commonalty and<lb></lb>
Citizens of the City of London to [] on behalf of the Governors of<lb></lb>
Bethlem Hospital of a piece of Ground on the West side of the little Moorgate adjoining to<lb></lb>
Bethlem Hospital for 883 years and an half from Lady Day 1790 at One shillings<lb></lb>
per Annum.</p>
<p n="834">And the Committee recommended it to the General Court to request the President Treasurer and<lb></lb>
Auditor General to accept the Lease for the use of these Hospitals and to execute the<lb></lb>
Counterpart thereof and Also that those Gentlemen should be indemnified for so doing<lb></lb>
at the expence of these Hospitals.</p>
<p n="835">That the Draft of another Lease from the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City<lb></lb>
of London to [] on behalf of the Governors of Bridewell<lb></lb>
and Bethlem Hospitals of a Messuage or Tenement and Vaults on the West side of Water<lb></lb>
Lane Tower Street for 7 years from Michaelmas 1790 at £44 per Annum having been read<lb></lb>
to the Committee they had recommended it to the General Court to empower them to apply<lb></lb>
to the City for a new Lease of the said premises subject to the future approbation and<lb></lb>
confirmation of the Court.</p>
<p n="836"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Treasurer's House,<lb></lb>
Offer and debate.</note>
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The Treasurer having expressed his readiness to resign the House in which he resides into the<lb></lb>
Hands of the Governors of these Hospitals to be let for the benefit of the Charity</p>
<p n="837">And the Committee having taken the same into their consideration and also the resolutions of<lb></lb>
The Courts of the 18th. and 22nd. June 1792 whereby the use of the House Ct. is confirmed<lb></lb>
to the present Treasurer during his continuance in that Office.</p>
<p n="838">The Committee resolved unanimously that there is no occasion whatsoever for a<lb></lb>
Treasurers constant residence at either of these Hospitals and recommend it to the Court<lb></lb>
to accept of the Treasurers proposal and to make him an allowance in lieu thereof of £200<lb></lb>
a year from Michaelmas next at which time the premises should be let for the benefit of the<lb></lb>
charity but the Committee thought it their duty at the same time to express their unanimous<lb></lb>
opinion that no allowance ought to be made To a future Treasurer who should in all<lb></lb>
respects be subject to the 9th. standing Rule and Order.</p>
<p n="839">After which upon a Motion being made in the Committee by Mr. Deputy Leckey and seconded<lb></lb>
by Mr. Perchard that it be recommended to a General Court that an alteration be made in<lb></lb>
the 7th. standing Rule and Order respecting the Auditor General being on Committees and<lb></lb>
upon the question being put Messrs Waddington Precious and Read were against the<lb></lb>
Motion and the Treasurer being called upon for the casting vote gave it in the<lb></lb>
affirmative Whereupon Messrs. Leckey Perchard and Hammond signed the said<lb></lb>
recommendation</p>
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