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§.7. Rates of profit in pari materia

It was not then till the year 1802 that in the
Philadelphia prison the more simple and advantageous,
was substituted to the less simple and advantageous
mode. But neither was it, in that Year till half the
Year had been employed on the less advantageous plan,
that the change took place, "The Inspectors' says the
"Report (p1) "had for a considerable time contemplated to
"enter into an Agreement, with persons in the City of
"New York, to provide the raw Materials, and to pay
"a fixed price for the Articles manufactured; but this
"Agreement did not take place, so as to be put in operation,
"before the middle of the Year. — The Materials and Goods
"remaining were then sold off; and though this Sale was
"attended with some loss the advantages resulting from the
"change are found to be great".

In speaking of their system of Management as not
having as yet fully attained one great object of their wishes, viz.
that of rendering the Labour of the Convicts adequate to the
support of the prison; and therefore ascribing this state of
comparative imperfection to the many difficulties of which
they give an Account, an Observation which they add is —
that "those difficulties will probably diminish every Year
with the increase of experience"; and thereupon it is, that
they exhibit the proportion between the Expenditures and
Receipts of this same Year as above setforth. —

On very good ground indeed will it appear that
the expectation thus modestly expressed was founded when
it is observed, that in this same Year, though, as
above, no more than half of it was employed on the
more simple and advantageous system, yet to pursue
the words employed in this same page of the Report)
"the net profit on the work and the labour performed
by the Convicts amounts to D21874..C43, while, in the
Account of the last preceding Year, 1801, as above, the
corresponding Article (p 94) runs (as hath been seen) in

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Box	122	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	479	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering	F43 / F44 / F45 / F46
Penner		Watermarks	C WILMOTT 1811
Marginals		Paper Producer	Andreas Louriottis
Corrections	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1811
Notes public		ID Number	002
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