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grounded his recent Proposal for the lodging
Supernumeraries. "Give me for only two years what
"you are now giving to Mr Campbel, viz: 21 a
"man, for every subsequent year I will maintain
"them forever after at my own price of 12."
What then will it cost Government, even for these
two years, to give them to Mr Bentham rather
than Mr Campbel? Not a penny. For every
year after the two years, the saving here too is 9.
Here then is an annuity of 9 for every Convict obtained
by Government for nothing. Such is the hardship
to Government upon this score. What would
Government have had to pay, if it had gone to work
and built a Penitentiary House for these supernumeraries
upon the common plan? A second Penitentiary
House could not be built for half a dozen or a
dozen supernumeraries as they happen to be brought
in: and upon the common plans not a single supernumerary
could be taken in to the first house.
The second must be built for the greatest probable
number, say 1000. With the benefit of Mr Blackburne's
frugality a Penitentiary House for a thousand
could not be had for so little as 200,000. It might
now be had (say) for 100,000. But for one reason
or other (such as diminution in the number of
Criminals, improvement of the County Prisons, extension

Identifier: | JB/115/111/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 115.
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Box	115	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	111	Info in main headings field	panopt.
Image	003	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
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