An address delivered at a general meeting of the nobility, gentry, clergy, and others, assessed to the county rate for the county of Glocester [sic] : convened ... for the purpose of receiving a statement of the proceedings of the committee appointed ... to rebuild the gaol and bridewells thereof; and held on Monday the 9th of July, 1792 / by Sir George Onesiphorus Paul.

  • Paul, George Onesiphorus, Sir, 1746-1820.
Date:
[1792]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An address delivered at a general meeting of the nobility, gentry, clergy, and others, assessed to the county rate for the county of Glocester [sic] : convened ... for the purpose of receiving a statement of the proceedings of the committee appointed ... to rebuild the gaol and bridewells thereof; and held on Monday the 9th of July, 1792 / by Sir George Onesiphorus Paul. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *7 ] in no inhance is it fubfequent j it was thought for the honor and the intereh of the public, that workmen and contra&ors fhould be paid inhantly on requifition, and we believe, that the one per cent, lofs on the handing cafh kept for this purpofe, has been amply repaid, by the credit given to the work j—indeed nothing Iefs would have enabled the Commiffioners to have made bargains, favourable to the public, as they have done. The books and the accounts, of all kinds, have been kept by myfelf; whatever errors or negledf you may perceive in them, fuch are my own,—in that refpecf there is no one on whom I can dilburthen an atom of blame. ;)iCi A 3* i *-•* to + 1 * '• ' * • f t The accounts are all before you, in a hate, in which it cannot be difficult, and, I truh, it will not be difagreeable for the meeting to examine them.—In order to bring the fubject of expence before your judgment in the moh fimple' manner that fo complicated a concern will admit, I have formed various abhra&s from the general ac- count, which will place the expenditure in every relative point of view that has occurred to me. ** if • ir • By the general account it appears, that the to- tal money paid by the Commiffioners (in confe- D uence