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23 Oct. 1802
#Collins Extracts 3

cultural experience had at the time of the latest accounts from
thence been confined, Lieutt Colonel Collins mentions a year
in which the crop did not exceed 1/3d of what was regarded
as an ordinary crop. + + In Dec. 1798. II Collins p. 136. happening then the rate
of deficiency never to be more considerable exceed at any
future time the highest rate indicated by so short an experience
to maintain a constant supply adequate to that
constantly probable rate of deficiency, a constant security
fund equal to 3 of an ordinary crop as will require
to be constantly maintained. For the 30th of June 1801,
the number of persons in New South Wales and Norfolk
Island taken together was already 6508. Since that
time other importations must have been received; and as
the destination of the Colony is to increase its population
to an indefinite amount by importations, let us
for round numbers suppose it to have arrived at 9,000
for the sake of round numbers. A quarter of wheat per
annum is the according to the common received computation the amount
of the consumption per head, all ages included in a
country in which as in Britain and in New South Wales grain forms but
a part though but a part of the food of the population
of the country, with the addition of a certain proportion of
mineral food. K Ten shillings a bushel was the
for in not only the latest price, by the last accounts but the by far most usual price
paid by government for the wheat purchased of the emancipated settlers
for the use of the non-emancipated convicts: 8s a bushel, making £3 4 4s a quarter was
the very lowest price. + + Put this into numbered propositions. Two thirds of a crop being by the supposition 6000 quarters, £3 . 4 multiplied Octr 1799 II Collins 269 this is the quantity which in some making
£19,200 hands or other ought should <add>must </add> to compare the degree of security
above mentioned, be in some hands or other constantly
in store, over and above the ordinary stock serving for the commonplace occasions
of the year. The value of this quantity, and the expence

Identifier: | JB/116/091/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-10-25	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	091	Info in main headings field	ii collins extracts
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
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Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	37624
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