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"more than two turnkeys from morning to night, without
"allowing them leisure for any other employment."*

N<hi rend='superscript'>o</hi> 8. Page 26. "If the undertaking were not unsuitable
"to my character and habits of life" (says the worthy Magistrate)
"I would not hesitate to contract for the profits of
"the prisoners' labour, (if they were allowed to work in
"their respective callings, and in such other labour as is
"proper for prisoners,) and so pay the County £400 per
"annum."

Waiving, though but for the moment, an observation
suggested by the hypothetical offer, by No 8, I
come now, my Lord, to the second part of my text. Good
or not good as it might be for the Counties to be forced
to corver cover themselves with these improved prisons,
so it is, they will not all of them at least suffer themselves
to be thus forced. Submitting to the tox tax directly
and actually imposed upon them, first by his
Grace, and now by Your Lordship, for the maintenance
of prisoners whom Parliament has ordered elsewhere — submitting
to this tax, perhaps for what of want of having
so distinct a view of the noble hands to which they
are indebted for it as this disclosure will now help
them to, they demur beforehand to the much
heavier as well as less directly imposed tax, also declared
to be in store for them — the tax of loading them, a la
Vanbrugh, with Blackburn architecture. The tax for maintenance

*A specimen of the expence of the official establishments upon
the plan of the prisons especially when on the gallypot
scale.

Identifier: | JB/116/630/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	630	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d37 / d38
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38163
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