JB/115/007/001

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17 March 1792

Proposal For a new and less expensive mode of employing & reforming Convicts.

The author, having turned his thoughts to the
Penitentiary system from its first origin, and having
lately contrived a building in which any number of
persons may be kept within the reach of being
inspected during every moment of their lives,
and having made out as he flatters himself to
demonstration, that the only eligible mode of
managing an establishment of such a nature,
in a building of such a construction would be by
contract, has been induced to make public the
following proposal for maintaining & employing
Convicts in general, or such of them as
would otherwise be confined on board the Hulks,
for 25 per Cent less than it costs Government to
maintain them there at present; deducting also
the average value of the work at present performed
by them for Government: upon the terms of
his receiving the produce of their labour, taking
upon himself the whole expence of building, without
and advance to be made by Government for
that purpose, requiring only that the abatement
and deduction abovementioned shall be suspended for
the first year. Upon

Identifier: | JB/115/007/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 115.
Date_1	1792-03-17	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	115	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	007	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	proposal / for a new and less expensive mode / of / employing and reforming convicts
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner		Watermarks	j whatman
Marginals		Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	37382
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