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Mr Bentham to. G. Holford Esq;r Chairman of the Penitentiary (1)
Committee
Letter 2d. Queen's Square Place Westmr. Monday 1st April 1811
Sir,
In my letter of Friday last, March 29. I contacted a
sort of engagement to submit "an expedient that has occurred
"to me for meeting what I understand to be the wishes of
"the Committee, as to the accommodating, the original
"plan to what appear at present the most pressing exigency,
"viz. the reception of females."
What follows is the result of my humble endeavours
to fulfill that engagement.
One circumstance that has been mentioned to me as
presenting a difficulty relative to any such addition, is
the difficulty which it has been supposed might attend the
adjustment of the terms "From the labour of the males you
"would have (it has been said to me) your expected profit,—from
'that of the females you can have no equal expectation:
taking 300 for the supposed number what increase of
terms then will you in this letter case demand for the
supposed increase of numbers?
To any such question I give this short answer,— I
desire no increase of terms.
Give me the number of males specified in the Contract
viz—1000,—under the same roof (preserving at the
same time perfect separation) I will at the same price
per head, give accommodation to the 300 females. If at
that price any profit be made upon any work done by these
females, such profit rests with me. If loss be the result,
at the same time that profit is made upon the males,
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