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Indirect Legislation § 6

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3. Expedient 3.
Taking the Signalement
of persons
on various occasions.

There is yet Another expedient that would which as far as it went might either be made to co-operate with
or to be substituted in the room of the two former, is one that can only be requisite but which is more confined in
it's application. I mean that of taking each
the profile of causing the profile of each person to
be taken and recorded with a signal verbal description
of his person underneath. (a) Note
Such a description
is in French known
by the particular
name of a signalement.
This would be applicable
chiefly to persons whose liberty of loco-motion
becomes subject to controul from the nature
of their condition. Such is the case for example
with apprentices, persons in a state of forced
servitude [which if such a state is to remain established]
and in particular men in a military station:
so also with so also will persons under custody, persons m
maintained in houses of industry: as likewise with
persons defendants under custody and convicts under sentence
of imprisonment confinement or hard labour
The business of perform taking the profiles may is be
performed rapidly and almost without expense.
In great establishments as in armies a limner
might for greater perfection be employ'd. The Signalements might be
made compleat and uniform by being digested
under heads. Both together if executed upon a
block of wood or a might be multiplied in
the

Identifier: | JB/087/035/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	26-30
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	035	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	001	Titles	note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f25 / f26 / f27 / f28
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	27560
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