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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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Continued Thursday
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28th. Novr. 1793
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And the Committee having viewed the House had Resolved
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that the Surveyor do prepare a plan for enlarging the Rooms
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where the Patients are placed while their Cells are cleaning and
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to report the same to the Committee together with an Estimate
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of the Expence of such improvement.
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And the Committee Resolved that the Clerk do Appeal agt.
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the Land Tax charged on the Ground at little Moorgate which
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had been lately leased to the Hospital by the Corporation of
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London at 1s. a Year.
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That the Treasurer had laid before the Committee several
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Bills amounting to £242..8..7 for extra work done in the
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years 1790 and 1791 to the Apothecaries House more than
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was included in the Contracts
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And that Mr. Holland the late Surveyor being present declare
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that altho' he believed the several works had been Executed yet
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as no orders for such works were given by him he had refused
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to bring forward the several accounts and it appearing upon
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inquiry that such orders were given by the weekly Committee
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at different times.
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The Committee had Resolved that such Bills ought to be
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discharged but that they were prevented by the late Rules
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and Orders from ordering the payment of them without the direc-
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tion of the Court.
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That the Surveyor had informed the Committee that upon
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taking down the Linings of the 15 Cells pursuant to the late
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Contracts he had found the Walls defective and that they
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ought to be stopped and mended before the new linings were
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put up.
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