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444 of the designs of the Trustees for the accommodation of- their pupils and of their endeavors to measure them by the limits of their financial ability, as also some knowledge of the arrange- ments of the Buildings. With Respect to the Buildings, there are Sixteen lodging Rooms in the two upper Stories, which we think may contain about fifty Boys, without being more crowded than in the Jersey College, which Dr Alison and Mr Kinnersley have visited on purpose to gain the necessary infor- mation. That we think the eight rooms in the second story may be charged at six pounds each room, and the eight rooms in the third story at five pounds each, so that these two upper stories will produce a clear Rent of eighty eight Pounds per Annum, exclusive of a double room on the first floor for the Charity Boys, which at the same Rate is worth twelve Pounds per annum. Of the three other Rooms on the first floor one is a Kitchen, the other is a Dining Room and the third (where the Charity Girls are) should be left as a Store Room and as a Sitting Room for the use of the Steward, as the Girls cannot either in Decency or Prudence be kept there after the Youth are collected into a Collegiate Way of Life ; nor do we find that the Charity Girls are any way included in the original Plan of the Insti- tution, nor were admitted into it, till the Month of December, 1753. That with Respect to the rest of the CEconomy of the House, it is to be kept entirely on a separate Footing, and will be no expence to the Trustees after the first Outset, nor any way mixt with their Accounts or Funds. The Plan is as follows : There must be a Steward, a Cook and an Assistant, who is also to be Bedmaker and to sweep the rooms. [After enumerating the various wages, from the Steward down who was to have forty shillings per annum for each Boy till they exceed the number of fifty, the report proceeds.] In Jersey's, the Commons, one year with another are from 17 to buying in the Gross, we think our Commons will come as cheap, and then the whole annual Expence will be as follows to the Boys who live four in a room, viz: To Commons ^18.0.0 Steward 2.0.0 Room Rent the highest i.io.o Washing and Mending 2.12.0 Servants' Wages o.io.o Firewood separate from the schools 0.15.0 Wear of Kitchen Furniture and other Con- tingencies 8.0
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