JB/115/009/001

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17 March 1792. Proposal
For a new and less expensive mode
of
employing and 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 and
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 on himself the
whole expence of building, without any advance
to be made by Government for that purpose, requiring
only that the abatement & deduction abovementioned
shall be suspended for the first year.
Upon

Identifier: | JB/115/009/001 "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	009	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	37384
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