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Objections to this idea struck with strike me still pretty
much as they did at first, but they would be got rid of
I think by a slight modification.
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[+] If your meaning
is to confineing the
contracting with
contract to the Architect,
more particular
recompense, leaving
else him it to him or somebody else
for the rest of
the expence or
the account of
Government the public
there I agree concurr
with you. perfectly. If
you mean the
contracting with
an Englishman
for the whole
expence in the
business I have
my some doubts
about the frugality
of the
measure of
whether the
measure would
prove a frugal
one if at all
practicable.

In the way of strict contracts I question whether
you would save any thing by that measure. the channel A
Londoner will know nothing of Dublin prices nor
Dublin workmen. A principal contractor will
hardly trust his fortune and character with sub-contractors
he is totally unacquainted with. If he
does he must be paid proportionably for the risk
he must run. No Londoner I should think
would upon any terms undertake such a business
till he had been at Dublin to look after sub-contractors
and enquire about their prices: but
is it to be expected that many candidates could
be found, or were any one, especially of any sort of eminence,
that would leave his business and incurr the trouble
and expence of such a journey for a mere
chance of what profit may be to be made upon
an expenditure of £8, or 10,000? I should
hardly think it: though to be sure the probable
extension of the plan would be an additional
lure. It seems therefore that the plan of taking
an Englishman by to contract with you if at all feasible subjects you
for a certainty to an increase of expence perhaps
not less than the utmost you have to apprehend from any
overcharge that may be made by an Irish one.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	044	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f7 / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	benjamin constant
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Notes public	draft of letter 714, vol. 4	ID Number	38661
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