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Letter IX. Penitentiary — Houses — Economy — Contract — Plan.

It is for clearing away, as much as possible, every motive of pecuniary
interest, that could prompt him to throw any kind of cloak or
reserve upon any of his expedients for encreasing his profits, that I would
ensure them to him for life.

From the information thus got from him, I derive
this advantage. In the case of his ill success, I see the causes of
it: and not only I, but every body else that pleases, may see the causes
of it: and amongst the rest, those who, in case of their taking the
management out of his hands, would have an interest in being acquainted
with such causes, in order to obviate or avoid them. More
than that, if his ill success is owing to incapacity, and that incapacity
such as, if continued, might raise my expence above
the calculation, I can make him stop in time: a measure, to what
he can have as little objection as myself: for, it is one advantage of
this plan, that whatever mischief happens must have more than cut,
out all his profits, before it reaches me.

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