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

that way might have been done: and if under his
plan of maintenance, Ao 1811 £8.7.11 or £9.5.5 1/2
sufficed to afford them what in his Judgment was
sufficient, so in 1793 would a much less sum than
£8.7.11 or £9.5.5 1/2, say for example £6.0.0; while
in that same Year for the feeding of each of my
Prisoners, I should have had £12.0.0; a sum the double
of that which, according to the supposition here in
Question, would, in the Opinion of the Reverend —
Magistrate, have been sufficient. True it is, that, unless,
on the score of the rise of prices, an Increase of
Head Money had been allowed to me, I should at
this time by the Terms of the Contract, have had
no more than £12 a year per head. But, in the
interval, if the price of provisions and other necessaries
has encreased, so has that of labour likewise. Had
the prosperity of my Establishment approached in
any degree to the expectations formed, as above, on
the Grounds therein mentioned, even supposing the
rise in the Amount of Earnings not to have kept
pace with the rise in the price of labour, I should
have had no need, nor perhaps any sufficient right, to
call for any Encrease of the Head Money: but in the
opposite event, there seems no reason why I should
not have had such right. —

The supposition here in Question, is made for the
purpose of simplification. But, in the Opinion of my
Arbitrators, should it not have been practicable for me,
consistently with my engagement as above mentioned, to
keep the Prisoners &c. for so little as £12 a Year per
head, they will deduct what on that score appears
reasonable, from the £37,500 a Year, and thence
from the £918,750.0.0 above mentioned, or from
the 3/4ths of it — the £659,062.10.0. The cut they
make upon that Ground may be pretty large (I
have already said why) without my feeling it. —

Identifier: | JB/122/475/002 "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	475	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	F31 / F32
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	002
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