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Skill & much attention, his Pay Should be Such as will Render him so Easy & Comfortable as not to be likely to Remove.
The Cases of the menial Servants of the Corporation will Require Little Consideration or alteration a List of them will appear in the Statements given by the officers.
besides these there are five most able & ingenious workmen who have been brought from Birmingham on the Recommendations of the Superintendent of machinery, without these it would have been utterly impossible to have set the machinery at work in the first instance, and at present it is as utterly impossible to Keep it in motion & to Carry on the business, The whole wages of these persons ought Certainly to be Paid by the moneyers, when they are at work or deducted from the allowances made to them.
To Each of these Persons an allowance for house Rent is made, The Total amount of which is £135 a year, These persons whose presence in the mint is continualy necessary, Complain Greviously that they are not