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28 Apr. 1813 +
Panopt. Compensation Claim III Contract
§§.6. Contractors expected rate
(2) 9

E. Contractors own expected rate

At the time of the giving me the accepted Proposal
Of The sort of hands whose work the machinery in question
was calculated to execute not only without need "either
"of skill dexterity or good will" + + 28th Finance
Committee Report
Ao 1798. Mr Benthams
evidence., but with that an measure
of dispatch, correspondent to that which, in all other cases,
has always been given to all such works in which machinery
has been applied, were the usual rate of
wages was beyond very considerably above that of the
wages of ordinary labour: in many some instances several
times the amount: and, it was in our power to among the normal trades which lay
within the reach of our Mechanism it was in our power
to make device of the best paid trades: Joiners, Cabinet-makers
Chair makers Wheel-wrights, Sawyers, &c &c, were to a considerable
extent even Millwrights, and Mathematical instrument
makers, who the latter of whom were even in those days were paid as high as 10s..6d
a day, or upwards: all of them apprenticed, or still better paid than
apprenticed, trades. Even at that time, none were
paid in the vicinity of the Metropolis at least, none were paid lower so low
than less than 2s.6d a day. Of the above better paid this sort were the works, which,
in so far as in present interest above were considered, we
should have put the whole prison population to in preference,
and in the assurance of funding to execute works of this
description far beyond about the utmost number of hands
of the description in question that would come under our
management would be able to execute, was founded
that claim in my the Proposal, which concerned post-liberation
employment — the obligation of finding employment
for our prisoners after their discharge. Per
that assurance was founded my Proposal: and on that
the corresponding assurance persuasion in their breasts, were [+] [+] I may venture to
say, founded, if
upon anything,
[+] if upon any
founded the repeated acceptances, which, after repeat separately separate views
viewing taken of the works, even by Mr Pitt and Mr Secretary
Dundas, given to it. Of the impression made upon them by the
spectacle[+]2
[+]2 indication may be
found in the Reports of (a)
the Debates of that time.

Note (a)
Extract from Woodfall's
Debates For an Extract
see p.7. of this Section.

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Date_1	1813-04-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	122	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	388	Info in main headings field	Panopt. Compensation Claim
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