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§.6.(9)
Ao 1811. £8:7s:11d or £9:5s:5 1/2d sufficed issued to afford them what in his judgement
was sufficient, so in 1793 would a much less sum than £8:7s:11d or £9:5s:5 1/2d say
for example £6:0:0: while in that same year for the feeding of each
of my prisoners I should have had £12:0s:0d, 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 headmoney 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 an encrease of headmoney: 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
any 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 £37,800 a year, and thence from the
£918,750:0s:0d above mentioned, or from the 3/4ths of it, the
£659,062:10s:0d. The cut they make upon that ground may be
pretty large (I have already said why) without my feeling it.

Identifier: | JB/122/505/001 "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	505	Info in main headings field
Image	001	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	F35 / F36
Penner		Watermarks	JOHN DICKINSON & Co 1809
Marginals		Paper Producer	A. Levy
Corrections	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1809
Notes public		ID Number	001
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