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the gentleman's committee who advised having
a copper fixed by the side of the one inside.
and that she had accordingly ordered a forty
gallon boiler prices £6 and the Treasurer
gave an order for Mrs. Benson to send a
Mason to set it.

The Secretary stated that as female
messengers had been engaged to fetch & carry
the clothes backwards and forwards to the Royal
Hotel but that at present the washing was not
so large as the Hotelkeeper had [crossed out] represented
nor confined to the articles specified in the
original agreement but that [crossed out] the Hotel-
keeper was willing to pay the same prices for
all extra articles as was charged to the Town
customers.

The Matron represented that the account
received for needlework did not remunerate
for the time engaged in it by the Inmates.
One new Inmate admitted the
Secretary mentioned that Charlotte Perry having
made her escape & been taken up by the
police had been sent to the Reformatory at
Newcastle. Kate Barry was reprimanded for
trying to escape she expressed penitence.