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Your Committee had proceeded thus far
on their inquiries, when by mere accident a fact came to light
which throws a new claim upon the complexity
of this business. In Woolwich Warren, under
the management of the Board of Ordnance no less than
5 pints of Beer, x are given to the Convicts thus
employ'd. By Beer we presume is meant
strong Beer, and x Porter being the cheapest
kind of srong Beer, that we presume is the
sort. Five pints of Porter at 1 3/4 per pint
(the retail price) makes 8 3/4 a day: (say to
avoid fractions, 9 d. This 8 3/4 subtracted from
1 s — 5 d haves the real alledged profit by upon this labour
of the artificiers part of the community reduces it from 1. 5 d to (instead
of 1s: 5d) subtracted from the alledged
profit upon the labour of the Common—Labourer
past it reduced it from 1s to 3d 1/4.
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panopticon versus new south wales; police bill |
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jeremy bentham |
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