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<p n="1278">than 6d the Hundred.<del>That</del>
Hence the Price of Labour being so very<lb></lb>
low in this Article in proportion to the Wages of the person necessary<lb></lb>
to conduct the performance and see to the properly tying up the<lb></lb>
dressed Hemp, in this stage of the account, it is clearly perceptible<lb></lb>
that no advantage is to be reaped by this kind of Labour in<lb></lb>
the Prison</p>
<p n="1279">In the making Oakum it is very different for if constant Work<lb></lb>
of this kind were to be obtained much Profit would accrue<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
Was a sufficient Quantity of Old Rope furnished from the<lb></lb>
Different Navy Yards Government might, under certain<lb></lb>
regulations, perhaps, reap considerable advantage; and thus the<lb></lb>
Labour of those persons might be applied to benefit that Community<lb></lb>
whose ill conduct had tended before to injure and disturb it.</p>
<p n="1280">By the Number of Persons which appear to be committed<lb></lb>
for Correction or to hard Labour it may excepted that great<lb></lb>
Quantities of Hemp have been beaten and Oakum made<lb></lb>
and some profit consequently have arisen, but tho' this<lb></lb>
supposition Carries with it the strongest marks of reason and<lb></lb>
probability yet it will be found otherwise It is not at all times<lb></lb>
that Work can be procured, even that little which is obtained is<lb></lb>
got with much difficulty, the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50652_occ154">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the County<lb></lb>
having been obliged more than once to solicit employment<lb></lb>
for these People by publick advertisement. At the time when<lb></lb>
the greatest Quantity of Foreign Hemp is imported, which is<lb></lb>
in the Summer Months, then indeed it often happens that<lb></lb>
the Prison is full of Work;but in the Winter the Hands are<lb></lb>
very rarely employed.</p>
<p n="1281">But notwithstanding the Number of Persons committed to the<lb></lb>
House of Correction appears so considerable, yet few of them<lb></lb>
actually Labour: many are incapable of it from Age, Sickness,<lb></lb>
or some personal disability: others who tho' they swell the list<lb></lb>
of Committments, yet continue but a short time in prison, being</p>
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