JB/117/047/002

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Explanation
required of
the degree
of encouragement
Sir
An idea I remember you threw out respecting
the mode and degree in which you conceived a
successful contractor might be and ought to be
rewarded in the event of supposing the success ascertained
by for example a five-years trial
something like the giving a pension for life to the
amount of the annual average of his savings
Though in the present stage of the business nothing
of this sort can of course be concidered as binding
upon you, yet as a statement of what are
your present sentiments with regard to the encouragement
that might proper & likely to be held out I should
think might it not be of advantage I should
have something in writing from that I might in talking
with candidates I might have it in my power
to shew? If so, though the mark standard from which
the savings are to be computed can not ought to be as
distinctly stated as if you were taking an engagement;
otherwise the whole will be unintelligible.
though you
will of course
take care not
to committ yourself
in the way
of engagement,
yet
You spoke for example in a loose way of the
present expence of keeping plans as being £15
a year per man? Do you mean that that If not that what other sum do
you mean should be taken as the standard from whence the savings

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	22-23
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	047	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f13 / f14
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	draft of letter 714, vol. 4	ID Number	38664
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