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been expended in the furniture of it: — The sum proposed to have been allowed
per man for the maintenance of the prisoners till the time when their labour
might be expected to yield a produce. These points, and a few others,
being ascertained, I should then be curious to know what degree of
productiveness, if any, would be looked upon upon as giving to the
measure of a Penitentiary-house, either of any construction or of this
extraordinary one, the preeminence upon the whole, over any of the other
modes of disposal now in practice or in contemplation. Many distinct
points for the eye to rest upon in such a scale iell readily occurr.
1. The produce might be barely sufficient to pay the expence of
feeding. — 2. It might further pay the expence of guarding feeding
and <hi rend="underline">cloathing. — 3. It might further pay the expence of guarding and
instructing: The salaries or other emoluments of the numerous tribe of
Visitors, Governors, Jailors, Taskmasters etc., in the one case, and of
the contractor and his assistants in the other. — 4. It might further
pay the wear and tear of the working stock laid in. — 5. It might
further pay the interest of the capital employed in the purchase of such
stock. 6. It might further pay the interest of the capital laid out in the
erecting and fitting up of the establishment in all its parts, at the common rate
of interest and money laid out in building. 7. It might further pay, at the
ordinary rate, the interest of the money, if any, laid out in the purchase of the
ground. Even at the first mentioned and lowest of these stages, that I should be
curious to compare the charge of such an institution, with that of the least
chargeable of those others that are as yet preffered to it. When it had risen
above the last, then, as you see, and not till then it could be said to

yield a profit, in the sense in which the same thing could be said of
any manufacturing establishment of a private nature.

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