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Continued, Thursday,
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31st. Jany 1799
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Passes Committed
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for a week to be
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passed. or Desordy.
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Committed for a
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Month Etc. to hard
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labour.
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Their
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ford Cart 4
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the average for
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that Period o
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Vagrats
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. forty day
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& Disorderly for
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a longer time
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& the average
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produce of their
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labour Contrazted
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with Diavenuge
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expence of their
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maintenence
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That the other Persons in the House are Vagrants taken
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up in London, and committed for a Week in order to be passed to
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their own Parish or County and Disorderly Persons committed
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for a Month or some other Period to hard labour. That the
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Permanent. average number of such Vagrants & disorderly
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Persons (whose Numbers are nearby equal) is Fifteen Men and
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Twenty five Women, at one time with another during the
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last four Years: That during the same Period, the Yearly
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Average Number of Vagrants, Committed for seven Days has
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as also been One thousand and forty two: of Disorderly Persons
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committed for a longer time three hundred and Nine: and
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that the produce of the whole of their Labour during the
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same Period has been on an average of the four Years
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£19..3..1½ a Year, which, at the rate above stated of the
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general Average of Forty Persons continuing in the House,
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does not amount to so much as ten Shillings a head for the
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Years Produce of the Labour of each individual.That the
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average expence of the Maintenance of these Persons
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amounts at Present to the Sum of £582 a Year being fixed at
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an allowance of Nine Pence a Day for each Person; and that
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the Salaries of the Task Master nd Task; Mestress, appointed
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to deliver out their Work, but who were discharged for
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misbehaviour in April 1797 amounted to £65 a Year.
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No employmt.
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but Oakum Hemp
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wch earns not
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quite 1d. adig.
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reprolated
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unless.
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That, no other emplyment is provided for the
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Persons confined in Bridewell, except Picking Oakum, and
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Beating Hemp; in which they earn on an average not quite
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a Denny a day, tho' thy are few of them, at the Period
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of life, or in a state of Health to be disabled from Labour
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as is the case with most of the Inhabitants of Door Houses
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and other Hospitals. That this employment is not so
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profitable
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