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Witnesses (or other Evidence expected.
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Propositions to be proved
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That the effect of the
said inventions has
been the render enabling
so perfectly raw hands
after a very short space of time practice
to exact learn to execute
and execute
accordingly work
to a greater value
than is executed
in the same number
of hours by a workmen
of ordinary
experience: in so
much that of the
prisoners 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.
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That at the time of
the acceptance given
to the Contract viz
Ao 1793 the ordinary wages
of the lowest paid to
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 now
still very much exceed
that amount.
Witnesses or other Evidence expected.
8
That the person
whose and whose
direction management the works
produced by the inventions
they being were carr his own
inventions, and
under whose
by whom the system of machinery
in question was
invented, and the
works by which it
was constructed were
carried on viz. Sir
S. Bentham is the
person under whose
direction the works
performed by the prisoners
in question with
the said by means of the machinery
in question
would have been
carried on: and that
for the productiveness
and steadiness of his
management, besides
other proof in abundance
that might be
adduced, is the case
of the £40,000 a
year net profit annually
produced,
after reimbursement
of the whole capital
by the work employed
in the manufacture
of Copper Sheathing
on his Majesty's
account in his Majesty's
Dock Yard
at Portsmouth.
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Identifier: | JB/122/342/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 122.
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Bentham versus Ld Castlereagh of the Treasury Compensation Claim |
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Rudiments sheet (brouillon) |
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"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.
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JOHN DICKINSON & Co 1809 |
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A. Levy |
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1809 |
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