This Committee was set up to invite and consider tenders for building the Chapel, and supervise its construction. The Committee did not meet after Oct 1847 and its functions were largely taken over by the Visiting Committee (see -/13/-/15/-). The main trades were printing, shoemaking, tailoring and twine-spinning. The Committee usually met weekly to receive the reports of the master tradesmen, the collectors and other officers and make recommendations to the General Committee on the trades, premises, diet, discipline, candidates for posts, etc. In Mar 1795 it was combined with the Committee of Resources as the United Committee of Trade and Finance and Resources, but from Jan 1796 the word 'Resources' was dropped. This Committee was known also as 'the Sub-Committee'. This Committee was set up to consider the plans for the buildings in St George's Fields, to supervise their construction and raise money for their completion.Ģ271/7/ TRADE AND FINANCE COMMITTEE 1794-1850 These volumes contain reports on the school by visiting members of the Committee Their printed (but not published) reports usually contain tables of income and expenditure, cost of maintenance, numbers of boys from counties and boroughs, pay and allowances of staff, estimates for ensuing year, prices paid for provisions, weekly returns, and farm and industrial accounts. This Committee met each year to examine the accounts of the previous year and submit estimates of future expenditure. Meetings were held weekly to c.1855, twice monthly to 1885 and monthly thereafter (becoming less frequent in the 1930s).Ģ271/4/ SPECIAL FINANCE COMMITTEE 1856-1914
The General Committee, also known later as the Committee of Management, dealt with regulation of the school, admissions, disposals, supervision of correspondence, appointment of employees, election of sub-committees, approval of payment of accounts, etc. From the 1880s Quarterly Courts were only rarely held. General Courts, open to all members of the Society were held in April (the Annual Court), July, September and December (Quarterly Courts), and dealt with the election of the General Committee and officers, approval of the accounts and Committee Minutes and regulation of the Society. The minutes of the General Court and of the General Committee were always entered in the same volume. For earlier published reports see Publicity and Publications (-/40/-).Ģ271/2/ GENERAL COURT AND GENERAL COMMITTEE 1793-1937 After the First World War the reports were slightly reduced in size, but illustrated after the Second World War they were further reduced, consisting only of the lists of Committee Members and officers and the Warden's report. These printed reports generally contain a list of officers and Committee Members Warden's report on admissions and discharges and the state of the school tables of diet, occupations, etc letters from emigrants abstract of income and expenditure and list of members, subscriptions and donations. The following is a detailed summary of the contents:
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The archive comprises many of the surviving records of the Society and its school, other than those in current use, since their foundation in 1788.
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