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§.6 (2) +
Joiners, Cabinet Makers, Chair makers, Wheelwrights, Surveyors &c,
to a considerable extent even Millwrights and Mathematical
instrument makers; among the latter of whom were some who, even in those days,
were paid as high as 10s:6d a day or upwards: all of them apprenticed or
still better paid than apprenticed, trades. Even at that time, in the
in the vicinity of the Metropolis at least, common labourers were not some were paid less than
2s:6d a day. Of the above better paid sort were the works, which, in
so far as personal interest alone were considered, we should have put
the whole prison population to in preference: and, in the assurance of
finding to execute work of this description, far beyond what the utmost
number of hands, of the description in question, that could come under
our management, would be able to execute, was founded that clause
in the proposal, which concerned post-liberation employment:-
the obligation of finding employment for our prisoners after
their discharge. On that assurance was founded my proposal:
and on the corresponding persuasion in their breasts, were,
I may venture to say, founded, if upon any thing, the repeated
acceptances, which after separate views taken of the works
were, by Mr Pitt, and Mr Secretary Dundas, given to it.

if the impression made upon them by the spectacle, indications
may be found in the reports of the debates of that time (a)
(a) For an Extract, see the last page of this Letter - p.33 .

Under these circumstances, among the 1000 prisoners
constantly living under one Management, what number there
might be who might come to us possessed of trades of their own,
capable of being exercised within the limits of the establishment
(within which limits it must be remembered that a space
of 79 acres was included) was not, on our own account, matter
of much concern, True it is, that whatsoever were the trades
they had respectively been bred to, or experienced in, in those
same trades, so long as mastermen could be found, who
were

Identifier: | JB/122/501/002 "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	501	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	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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