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on the part of the said Jeremy Bentham or his
said Successors with power to appoint an umpire. —
Art. 17. in case of escape the said Jeremy Bentham and
his said successors shall respectively be made Debtors
in their quarterly account to the amount of
£50 for every instance of such escape, irresistible
violence from without excepted : provided that they
shall respectively be made Creditors to the like amount
in case of recapture.
Art. 18. The life of each prisoner is to be insured by
the said Jeremy Bentham and his Successors at
the rate of £100 a head for a proportionable premium
to be paid by the said Lords Commissioners
and their Successors as follows. A computation
shall be formed of the number of deaths
that may be expected to take place among the prisoners in the course of each year out of the
said number of a thousand prisoners living at
the commencement of such year, taking for
the standard the annual proportion of the sum total of deaths at the end of a
year to that of persons living at the commencement
of the said year according to the London
Bills of Mortality, and the calculations thereon
grounded by the late Revd Dr Price. Such computation
being made, the said Jeremy Bentham
and his Successors shall at the end of each year
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