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Propositions in proof of which it is proposed to look for Witnesses.
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:
in 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.
4. That, for a number of convict prisoners amounting
to 1000 in every year, work could, by means of Sir S.
Bentham's inventions, the place of employment being a Panopticon
as above, have been executed to a value sufficient
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
independent of the profits, the Claimant would be 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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