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§.5 (2) +
and this too, even without either additional advance of capital,
or additional trouble of inspections; viz. either by taking in partners,
or by granting licences. And in fact, in confidence of the advantage
expected from that source, the patents, one or more of them were, at
more than double the expence, extended to Scotland (for this I well
remember) and perhaps (for I am not sure, though I am certain
it was in contemplation) - to Ireland.

III. The "loss and damage," in question under this head,
consists in the loss of whatsoever profit might have been produced
under the Contract in question; being a Contract,
for the maintenance of 1000 prisoners every year during my own
life, (my age is 65) and that of my said Brother (aged 56); the contract
having for its' basis, the assurance of rendering, by means of the
system of machinery in question, the labour of the most unpracticed
idlers, in the situation of prisoners, equal at least in its daily value
to that of an experienced and regularly bred hand, employed in
giving birth to the same productions: in addition to which labour,
I was to have had besides, land to the amount of 79cteres and 1 Rood,
and a sum of money for the building : £12000 a year, for the
thousand prisoners.

Those who were already in the possession of handicraft
trades, capable of being carried on in the penitentiary establishment
consistently with the necessary discipline, it was my fixed, and if
I recollect right my declared intention, to continue in the exercise
of those same trades, were it only for the purpose of
keeping their hands in; that upon their liberation they might
return to society, in the not only unimpaired, but improved
possession of so valuable an advantage. To the herd of unpracticed
idlers, together with those, whose stock of skill and experience
had been confined to trades, not capable of being carried on in the
establishment, employment in the new works in question would
have



Identifier: | JB/122/497/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 122.

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Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

122

Main Headings

Panopticon

Folio number

497

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

F19 / F20

Penner

Watermarks

JOHN DICKINSON & Co 1809

Marginals

Paper Producer

A. Levy

Corrections

Jeremy Bentham

Paper Produced in Year

1809

Notes public

ID Number

002

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