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<p n="3361">Continued, Thursday, <rs type="date" id="BBBRMG20210_date269">31st. Jany 1799</rs>
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<p n="3362"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Report<lb></lb>
Select Commitee</note>
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<p n="3363"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Passes Committed<lb></lb>
for a week to be<lb></lb>
passed. or Desordy.<lb></lb>
Committed for a<lb></lb>
Month Etc. to hard<lb></lb>
labour.</note>
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<p n="3364"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Their<lb></lb>
Average No.<lb></lb>
ford Cart 4<lb></lb>
Years. as also<lb></lb>
the average for<lb></lb>
that Period o<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20210_occ4333">Vagrats</rs>
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. forty day<lb></lb>
& Disorderly for<lb></lb>
a longer time<lb></lb>
& the average<lb></lb>
produce of their<lb></lb>
labour Contrazted<lb></lb>
with Diavenuge<lb></lb>
expence of their<lb></lb>
maintenence</note>
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<p n="3365">That the other Persons in the House are Vagrants taken<lb></lb>
up in London, and committed for a Week in order to be passed to<lb></lb>
their own Parish or County and Disorderly Persons committed<lb></lb>
for a Month or some other Period to hard labour. That the<lb></lb>
Permanent. average number of such Vagrants & disorderly<lb></lb>
Persons (whose Numbers are nearby equal) is Fifteen Men and<lb></lb>
Twenty five Women, at one time with another during the<lb></lb>
last four Years: That during the same Period, the Yearly<lb></lb>
Average Number of Vagrants, Committed for seven Days has<lb></lb>
as also been One thousand and forty two: of Disorderly Persons<lb></lb>
committed for a longer time three hundred and Nine: and<lb></lb>
that the produce of the whole of their Labour during the<lb></lb>
same Period has been on an average of the four Years<lb></lb>
£19..3..1½ a Year, which, at the rate above stated of the<lb></lb>
general Average of Forty Persons continuing in the House,<lb></lb>
does not amount to so much as ten Shillings a head for the<lb></lb>
Years Produce of the Labour of each individual.That the<lb></lb>
average expence of the Maintenance of these Persons<lb></lb>
amounts at Present to the Sum of £582 a Year being fixed at<lb></lb>
an allowance of Nine Pence a Day for each Person; and that<lb></lb>
the Salaries of the Task Master nd Task; Mestress, appointed<lb></lb>
to deliver out their Work, but who were discharged for<lb></lb>
misbehaviour in April 1797 amounted to £65 a Year.</p>
<p n="3366"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">No employmt.<lb></lb>
but Oakum Hemp<lb></lb>
wch earns not<lb></lb>
quite 1d. adig.</note>
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<p n="3367"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">reprolated<lb></lb>
unless.</note>
<lb></lb>
That, no other emplyment is provided for the<lb></lb>
Persons confined in Bridewell, except Picking Oakum, and<lb></lb>
Beating Hemp; in which they earn on an average not quite<lb></lb>
a Denny a day, tho' thy are few of them, at the Period<lb></lb>
of life, or in a state of Health to be disabled from Labour<lb></lb>
as is the case with most of the Inhabitants of Door Houses<lb></lb>
and other Hospitals. That this employment is not so<lb></lb>
profitable</p>
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