Bye-laws, rules, orders and directions, for the better government of His Majesty's Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, made and confirmed ... Dec. 1775 and ... Feb. 1776.

  • Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich
Date:
1776
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Bye-laws, rules, orders and directions, for the better government of His Majesty's Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, made and confirmed ... Dec. 1775 and ... Feb. 1776. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    neral Court or Board of Directors, as the nature of the cafe may require, V. When any eftimated work is ordered to be done, he is diligently to obferve the progrefs thereof, and reftrain the Workmen within due bounds; he is to meafure the faid work from time to time, (if need¬ ful) and calculate the expence as it goes along; and, if he finds the charge going to exceed the eftimate, he is to Hop the work, and to lay an account thereof before the Directors at their firft meeting, with the reafons of the excefs and what farther expence will be neceflary to finifh it. VI. When any eftimated work is finifhed, he is to lay before the Directors an exaCt account of the ex¬ pence of the faid work, and the difference between the fame and the eftimate. VII. He is, in conjunction with the Surveyor and Clerk of the Cheque, to admeafure, once in every three months, fo much of the works as come under mea¬ fure, and to bring the fame to account in the firft - - • books.