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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    [ >9 ] felicitation ; the bills of fome few diftant tradef- men, to which the Commiffioners have objected, remain alfo unfettled ; but as I have, in thefe cafes, advanced money on account, to the amount of what I conceive theirjuft demand, I venture to deliver the above as the full coil of the work. The total of this expenditure far exceeds the amount of the Surveyor’s eftimate laid before the Committee $ Gentlemen, who have themfelves been builders on a fmaller fcale, and even under their own eye, mud be aware of the fallacy of previous efhmate ;—in this work, every branch of which was new both to the calculator and workman, great allowance for error ought to have been made ; great allowance was made; and the re- fult has exceeded it;—yet there is every reafon to believe, that the work has been done on terms favorable to the public;—even on fuch terms as would not be again undertaken, oj* could not be again executed. To lead you to a more detailed view of the general oeconomy of the work, the expenditure fhould be confidered under the four different heads, of previous contract ;—subse- quent ESTIMATE j DAY LABOR AND MA- D 2 TERIALS