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part of this expence is to be placed to the Account of those persons who
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are committed for high Offences or such as are confined and not
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compellable to work in the Prison
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Observ. 5.
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Why there appears no profit upon the labour of such Numbers
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it may be particularly necessary to explain.
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The Work which the Persons perform who are committed to the
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House of Correction
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for employment in hard Labour, is the
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beating Hemp and making Oakum These are the only Articles
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of the manufactures which have been hitherto introduced into the
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, the Instruments necessary in the respective
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operations being few, and of such a Nature as cannot easily be
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employed by the Prisoners to facilitate an Escape It is only on the latter
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of these, however, that any hopes of Profit can be entertained from
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the constant employment of the persons confined in the
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: For as to the beating of Hemp, the invention of many
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excellent machines for this purpose, has reduced the price of
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manual Labour in this business far below the line of a living
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Profit
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The Machines
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invented for dressing Hemp are so much more expeditious
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in their operation tho loss accurate than what can be done by hand,
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tho' not
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to accurate,
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that the manufacturers will not even for the
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advantage of its being better prepared for the Wheel and Loom be
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at the trouble of sending Hemp to beat. By the Introduction
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of these Machines into Practice, the Price of the beating of Hemp
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has gradually decreased from 2/6 to 8d the hundred Weight
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and there are none who that have such Machines, who will give on Account
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of the Expence of Carriage
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given
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any more for what is done at the Prison
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