JB/087/031/004

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Indirect Legislation § 6

Political
Marking

9

Means of applying
this expedient to
practice.

Let every member of the community be marked
in an indelible manner with a mark with a set of words and figures expressive
of his name and the with the time and place of his birth.The mark to answer
the purpose must be
indelible. The operation
in the new discover'd
Islands called King
George's islands is
called tattooing , a
term with the signification
of which few are
not at present unacquainted.
This term I shall
appropriate as a sort
of technical term to the
present purpose
The part
of the body for it to be done tattoo'd then to be tattooed imprinted upon should be some part
in which it of the body in which the mark may either constantly or at least
occasionally be exposed to view without offence to
modesty decency , and with as little inconvenience as
may be in point of personal appearance. It
might encircle the right arm for instance in
the manner of a bracelet. It ma Let it On children it might be
imprinted on Children might be tattooed within a certain period
after their birth. It might be inspected by authority, & refreshed or added
to upon their coming of age or sooner and more frequently if it should be thought necessary : A particular mark
such as those that of a ring might also be added upon at the time of marriage: and the like added
upon every fresh marriage

As many to the
of details would be requisite in order to provide particular method of performing the operation: the provision
to be made against the case of two or more persons bearing the same
name: to provide and against for the case of obliteration or alteration by accidents ;
or by design: as also and the method to be taken for enforcing the institution & obedience compliance in case of neglect or comtumacy,
these and various other details [that occur]
would require to be adjusted, but are of too
minute a nature to be noticed here.

Identifier: | JB/087/031/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	6-9
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	031	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	004	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	c. hamilton
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27556
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