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S.7. Rates of profit in pari materia

these words — viz. The net profit of the labour of the
Convicts in the Year 1801, produced from a Capital
employed not excluding Dollars 20,000 was —
7,941.. 83

In this same Account, if with reference to the
present purpose, there were any adequate use in
scrutinizing into it, two other points would, I imagine, be
found observable.

The one is the great liberality of the Allowance
made to the prisoners in the shape of provisions
compared with that mode in the Case of the Southwell
prison, which will presently be brought to view.

The other is, the multitude and high pay of the
persons employed in the management of this American
prison, compared with the number and pay, which in
the judgment of the Reverend Manager of that English
prison, would, in the case of a Prison on the panopticon plan, have been requisite: the
number of prisoners in this American Prison not being
half so great as that which would have been constantly
contained in the panopticon prison, viz. 1000, under the
terms of the Contract.

And note, that besides their respective salaries, as above
in the Philadelphia prison, all the above mentioned
official persons had their diet and washing, the expence
of which, of the diet at least, may be seen forming a
separate Item in the Accounts of that prison to
the amount of 2538..68 for ffood and Drink,
besides the charges for washing and other Articles.

What renders these Accounts so trustworthy and
comparatively so instructive is, that of all the several
Articles purchased for the use of the prison there
is not any one sort that does not form a distinct and
separate Article: and to the sorts, with very few
exceptions (still better had it been with none at all)
are added the Quantities.

Identifier: | JB/122/479/003 "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	479	Info in main headings field
Image	003	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	003
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