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S.6. Contractor's own expected rate of profit

in whose Case there seems no reason why the case, at
which, for the purpose of the per Centage to be paid
to them by me as above, their Labour would have
been valued, should have exceeded the ordinary rate
of the Wages of Labour- if to this profit, as above, upon
the labour of the several hands, be moreover added-
the profit, which, in every profitable Manufacturing
Concern, the Master Manufacturer makes as such,
it will not I am inclined to thin appear
unreasonable, if from all these sources of additional
or extra profit, taken together, the aggregate profit
should be considered as promising to constitute a
sufficient set off against the 1/4 of Earnings, so engaged
to be allowed as aforesaid.

But, if to my Arbitrators it should appear otherwise, —
and even so far otherwise, that it should not appear
proper to them to set down any thing to the score of
profit on any one of these three additional or extra
Accounts; - in which Case the 25 per Cent would have
to be deduced from the whole amount of the ensuing
estimate of "damage by the nonfulfillment of the Contract",
to me for the reason already intimated, it would not
make any practical difference.

In the sums thus brought to view in the character
of Elementary parts of the expected profit, I cannot, I
must confess, so long as they are considered one by one,
conceive, how there should be any thing capable of
producing in any judicious mind a judgment of
disbelief, or so much as an emotion of surprize. But
when they are brought together, and by the successive
application of two such large Multipliers as those which
out of all dispute belong, as will now be seen, to the
present Case, and made up into a Total, then it is-
that the Imagination will, upon a first Glance, be but too
apt to make a Start, and, though without any assignable

Identifier: | JB/122/474/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 122.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	122	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	474	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering	F27 / F28
Penner		Watermarks	C WILMOTT 1811
Marginals		Paper Producer	Andreas Louriottis
Corrections	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	002
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