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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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than 6d the Hundred.
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Hence the Price of Labour being so very
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low in this Article in proportion to the Wages of the person necessary
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to conduct the performance and see to the properly tying up the
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dressed Hemp, in this stage of the account, it is clearly perceptible
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that no advantage is to be reaped by this kind of Labour in
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the Prison
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In the making Oakum it is very different for if constant Work
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of this kind were to be obtained much Profit would accrue
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Was a sufficient Quantity of Old Rope furnished from the
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Different Navy Yards Government might, under certain
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regulations, perhaps, reap considerable advantage; and thus the
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Labour of those persons might be applied to benefit that Community
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whose ill conduct had tended before to injure and disturb it.
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By the Number of Persons which appear to be committed
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for Correction or to hard Labour it may excepted that great
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Quantities of Hemp have been beaten and Oakum made
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and some profit consequently have arisen, but tho' this
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supposition Carries with it the strongest marks of reason and
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probability yet it will be found otherwise It is not at all times
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that Work can be procured, even that little which is obtained is
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got with much difficulty, the
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Justices of the Peace
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for the County
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having been obliged more than once to solicit employment
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for these People by publick advertisement. At the time when
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the greatest Quantity of Foreign Hemp is imported, which is
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in the Summer Months, then indeed it often happens that
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the Prison is full of Work;but in the Winter the Hands are
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very rarely employed.
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But notwithstanding the Number of Persons committed to the
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House of Correction appears so considerable, yet few of them
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actually Labour: many are incapable of it from Age, Sickness,
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or some personal disability: others who tho' they swell the list
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of Committments, yet continue but a short time in prison, being
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