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2 June 1813 Panopt. Compensat. Probanda

1
That even without the
help of the Panopticon
construction, or Sir S
Bentham's inventions,
Convict labour is capable
of being rendered
profitable — and to a
large extent has been,
though without the
encouragement which
under the Panopticon
contract would have
been afforded, viz to
each man 1/4 of his
earnings.

2.
That even without the
help of the Panopticon
construction, Convicts
are capable of being rendered
in a Prison perfectly
orderly and tractable.

3
That by the Panopticon
construction the security
for orderliness and
tractability, as also for
exactness of workmanship
and quantity of
work could not but be
much superior in the
case of the prisoners in
question to that which
has place in the case of
ordinary workmen,
working on ordinary
terms: is as much as
these prisoners would
have been at all times
all of them actually
in the sight of the
persons having the direction
of their labour.

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4
That for a number
of Convict prisoners
amounting to 1000
in every year, work
could, by means of
Sir Samuel Bentham's
inventions, the place
of employment being
a panopticon as above
have been executed to
render their earnings
per head, upon an average
equal to 2s:6d per
day; or some other
(and what?) considerable
sum.

5
That for the produce
of all this work custom
would by means
of the said inventions
have been found: in
as much as not only
by the dispatch produced
by these inventions
but by the advantage
of having the workmen
maintained out of
a fund independant
of the profits, the Claimant
would to the
extent of the quantity
of work, have had
the command of the
market — underselling
all masters employing
men on ordinary
terms.

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6
That the effect of the
said inventions has
been, the enabling
perfectly raw hands
after a very short
practice to learn
to execute, and execute
accordingly
work to a greater
value than is executed
in the same number
of hours by workmen
of ordinary experience
in so much
that if the prisoner
workmen in question
had been to be paid
according to the value
of their work to their
employer, the wages
of their labour would
have amounted to
more than the wages
of the labour of so
many ordinary
workmen.

7.
That at the time
of the acceptance given
to the contract viz.
Ao 1793 the ordinary
wages of the lowest
paid species of
labour were not less
than 2s:6d per day:
and that the ordinary
wages of men employed
in works of
the sort in question
did then, and do still
very much exceed
that amount.

Identifier: | JB/122/340/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 122.
Date_1	1813-06-02	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-7
Box	122	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	340	Info in main headings field	Panopt. Compensat. Probanda
Image	002	Titles
Category	Marginal summary sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	JOHN DICKINSON & Co 1809
Marginals		Paper Producer	A. Levy
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1809
Notes public		ID Number	002
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