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1 have fent you likewife a table of the prifoners' 

 fare or diet in the houfe, by which you will fee, 

 that although not patnperedy they are wholfomely fed. 

 Experience juftifies me in faying this; for, except 

 fuch as were difeafcd when they entered the houfe, 

 I have not known one prifoner who has been fick 

 in it for thefe twelve months pafl:. Included is alfo 

 the form of a return made by the keeper of the 

 houfe, to every quarter-feffions of the peace, where- 

 by the ftate of the prifon is conftantly know n to 

 the juftices, and ail abufes obviated or fpeedily 

 remedied. I am, &c. 



THOMAS BEEVOR. 



RiileSt Orders, and Regulations, to be ohferved and 

 enforced at the Houfes of Corre^ion in the county of 

 Norfolk. 



I. THAT the feveral perfons committed to the houfes of cor- 

 rection, to be kept to hard labour, fliall be employed (unlefs pre- 

 vented by ill health) every day (except Sundays, Chrillmas-day, 

 and Good-Friday) for fo many hours as the day-light in the dif- 

 ferent feafons of the year will admit, not exceeding twelve hours, 

 being allowed to rell half an hour at breakfalt, an hour at dinner, 

 and half an hour at fupper, and that the intervals fliall be noticed 

 by the ringing of a bell. 



II. That the governor of each houfe of corredlion (hall adapt 

 the various employment direfted by the juftices, at their quarter- 

 feflions, to each perfon, in fuch manner as (hall be belt fuited to 

 his or her ftrength and ability, regard being had to age and fex. 



III. That the males and females fliall be employed, and fli.ill 

 eat and be lodged, in fcparate apartments, and fliall have no in- 

 tercourfc or communication with each other. 



IV. That 



