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<p>Question "If you cannot <del><gap/></del>.... state any terms upon which<lb/> | |||
"you would now enter upon a Contract for carrying your plan into<lb/> | |||
"execution.</p> | |||
<p>Answer. <del>The ba</del> What concerns the <hi rend="underline">building</hi> being <del><add><gap/></add> not if the<lb/> | |||
question</del> (as per Answer to Question 1 out of the question, as to<lb/> | |||
what <add><del>I would rather my subsequent</del></add> concerns <hi rend="underline">superintendence</hi><hi rend="superscript">⊞</hi> <note><hi rend="superscript">⊞</hi> (what I mean by it is the <del>whole</del> <add>entire</add> management)</note> <del>what I <gap/> to that</del> <add>the answer I have to <del>give</del> submitt</add><lb/> | |||
follows.</p> | |||
<p><del>I can not at present</del> Should it be the pleasure of the<lb/> | |||
Committee to <del>make</del> give a correspondent recommendation<lb/> | |||
to the Treasury, I should be ready and willing to undertake<lb/> | |||
the superintendence of the number before agreed upon (viz. <add>to wit</add><lb/> | |||
£1000 Male Prisoners: <add>viz.</add> upon terms <del>not at all varying in</del> <add>such as should not vary</add><lb/> | |||
<del>reality</del> <add>at all in substance</add>, and in language <del>varying</del> <add>should vary</add> no otherwise than by<lb/> | |||
the substitution of the real <add>present</add> value of the sum <del>in question</del> <add>then <del>since first</del><lb/> | |||
agreed upon</add> viz £12 a head to that value which by the rise of prices<lb/> | |||
is become no longer real <del>than</del> but nominal. Merely for<lb/> | |||
<del>illustration, I say £18 <gap/></del> <add>illustration let us take a certain sum for an uncertain and say</add> £20. Whether any such<lb/> | |||
given sum (viz <del>(£18 or</del> £20) money of the present day 29 March<lb/> | |||
1811 would <del>go further than <add>in the purchase of food or</add></del> in the purchase of <del>necessaries <gap/></del> <add>articles <del>in question</del></add><lb/> | |||
<del>measure <gap/> of</del> <add>such as are in question</add> in the Contract go <del>further than <gap/></del> <add>just</add> as far as<lb/> | |||
or not so far as or further than the £12 money of that day<lb/> | |||
August 1794 <add>1795</add> is a question which there is not (I suppose) a<lb/> | |||
single gentleman in the Committee <del>but is</del> <add>who <del>is not</del> at the moment is not</add> better qualified to <del>find</del> <add>give</add><lb/> | |||
a precise answer to, than at this time, <del>so long <gap/> do <gap/> <add>upon</add><lb/> | |||
my <gap/> towards <gap/> the subject out of <add>as the</add> <gap/> <gap/> I</del> <add>after so many years, during which my endeavours were to keep</add><lb/> | |||
<del>can pretend to be <gap/></del> as far as possible out of my <del>thoughts</del> <add><del><gap/></del> thoughts</add><lb/> | |||
every thing that <del>bought to my imagination this <gap/> business</del> <add>could bring into then so many painful</add><lb/> | |||
sensations, I can pretend to be.</p> | |||
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Question "If you cannot .... state any terms upon which
"you would now enter upon a Contract for carrying your plan into
"execution.
Answer. The ba What concerns the building being not if the
question (as per Answer to Question 1 out of the question, as to
what I would rather my subsequent concerns superintendence⊞ ⊞ (what I mean by it is the whole entire management) what I to that the answer I have to give submitt
follows.
I can not at present Should it be the pleasure of the
Committee to make give a correspondent recommendation
to the Treasury, I should be ready and willing to undertake
the superintendence of the number before agreed upon (viz. to wit
£1000 Male Prisoners: viz. upon terms not at all varying in such as should not vary
reality at all in substance, and in language varying should vary no otherwise than by
the substitution of the real present value of the sum in question then since first
agreed upon viz £12 a head to that value which by the rise of prices
is become no longer real than but nominal. Merely for
illustration, I say £18 illustration let us take a certain sum for an uncertain and say £20. Whether any such
given sum (viz (£18 or £20) money of the present day 29 March
1811 would go further than in the purchase of food or in the purchase of necessaries articles in question
measure of such as are in question in the Contract go further than just as far as
or not so far as or further than the £12 money of that day
August 1794 1795 is a question which there is not (I suppose) a
single gentleman in the Committee but is who is not at the moment is not better qualified to find give
a precise answer to, than at this time, so long do upon
my towards the subject out of as the I after so many years, during which my endeavours were to keep
can pretend to be as far as possible out of my thoughts thoughts
every thing that bought to my imagination this business could bring into then so many painful
sensations, I can pretend to be.
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