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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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