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Under the old transportation system, the person on whom the
life condition of the convict depended — a Master working employing him for
his own (the Master's) benefit — would stand engaged,
by the tie of personal interest, to extract from him as much
labour from him as could be extracted - and in quality
to watch over his conduct in that and every other respect
with the utmost most uninterrupted vigilance - and, in respect of quality
as well as quantity of work to give the utmost return to his
service: Under this new transportation system, the
Govern management being mere trust- management —
management management under the general orders of the Governor, conducted for
the benefit of the public purse — management therefore without interest — at least without
pecuniary interest - as well as without any other than a very loose inspection the effect of it was in this respect such as
from the nature of man might be expected. By the late Chief Magistrate of the Colony, the average amount of a day's work labour was
estimated (as will be seen further on) at not more than
a third of what would have been rendered by a free labourer
working on the ordinary terms. Collins. p.40. A part of True it is that One
a considerable part of the Convict population, has always it all along been distributed
among the officers, who to be employ'd by them for their own
benefit: in which case, that That more attention was paid in all points,
and especially in that of industry, more attention was
paid, to the conduct of the convicts thus disposed of, than
was or could be paid to such of them as were retained
in the further service, is much to be doubted. Still however
in this case, the closeness of inspection
would on many accounts fall short of that which would
have been general under the old transportation system of
transportation to America would have been generally. kept up. In America
the becoming purchasers of the Masters becoming such by purchase
would without exception be persons already to engaged in habits of

Identifier: | JB/116/007/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	0000-10-07 Unable to interpret the "0000-10-07" input value as valid date or time component with "There is no year 0 in Gregorian and Julian calendars." being reported.	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	007	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
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Notes public		ID Number	37540
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