MEMORANDUM OF LABOUR AND WAGES. 
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The following rule will show how a week’s work is made 
out for two men: 
New Shoes put on. 
Monday ... 22 
Tuesday ... 24 
Wednesday . 28 
Thursday . . 22 
Friday .... SO 
Saturday ... 18 
Put on in the week 1 44 
A day’s work, 32. 
Half a day, 16. 
Removes. 
9 
2 
10 
4 
0 
5 
SO 
Leather. 
4 
6 
0 
2 
0 
4 
16 
Doz. made. 
1 
1J 
4-| days, new shoes, 128. 
fths of a day of removes. 
\ a day, leather soles. 
1 day making. 
si 
The above quantity of work amounts to six days and three 
quarters, so that the two men have done three quarters of a 
day overtime. 
A Memorandum showing the cost of Five Bozen of Shoes making 
and putting on by Two Men , one having 27 s. and the other 
21 s. per week . 
Two men making 5 dozen of shoes, a day’s work : £ s. d. 
cost making . . . . . .080 
Putting on, 1 j and ith of a day’s work, amounts 
to for 2 men 0 15 0 
Nails for 15 sets of shoes will require 480 : cost .029 
Cost of 32 lb. of new iron for 2£ dozen of fore shoes 0 3 3 
Cost of 32 lb. of old shoes for 2 J dozen of hind ,, 0 10 
Cost of 2 bushels of coal to make and fit out for 
putting on . . . . . .016 
One good rasp should last to put on 100 shoes .010 
Rent of premises, wear and tear of rasps and tools 
of different descriptions, cost me per week, 
if not more . . . . . . 0 10 0 
If’ double-hammered for coach horses, 
they will cost making the 5 dozen 
The weight of new iron for 2^ dozen 
2 
d. 
6 more 
2 6 
1 6 
of fore shoes will be 48 pounds = 
Old iron for 2J dozen of hind shoes 
will require 52 pounds . = 0 6 
