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349 CRIT. JUR. CRIM. Account of the working Convicts (1

1. Hours of work
2. Kind of Work.
3 Method of Coercion
4. Cloathing
5. Diet.
6. Lodging by Night
7. Time - how filled up
on ordinary days
8 — on Sundays.
9. Firing?
10 Assistance Medical?
11 — Spiritual?
12 Fund for cloathing &c.

13. Occasional Regulations
by whom made: 1778 Jan:

Number
About 300 Convicts on board the two Ships - room
for 50 more. Many boys some of them under 12.

Work
About 150 employed on shore in making a Wharf
a terrace for the Cannon & a proof hut all to be surrounded
with a wide wet ditch.
they are enclosed on one
side by the ditch on the
other by chevaux de
no body allowed to enter without
an order.
The ditch as far as it
is planted with live willow - stakes a tall and a short one
alternately. Part of the terrace is preparing to receive cabbages for the use of the
convicts.

The rest employed in raising ballast or in the hospital

In winter dine late - & do not quit the ship afterwards —
always go on board for meals.

How secured
A heavy chain round each ancle fixed to another
Which is fastened round the middle — some instead of
this last have only a rope, and the sick have a
chain only on one leg — some of them none at all

They were formerly chained two & two & chained to their
beds at night — now neither of these done.

The chains at first very light & made heavier in
consequence of escapes — the escapes contrived connived at on purpose
that the necessity of heavy chains might be
apparent & the clamour against them lessened — The

Identifier: | JB/117/001/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1	1778-01	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	117	Main Headings	critique of jurisprudence criminal
Folio number	001	Info in main headings field	crit. jur. crim. account of the working convicts
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1 f349 / f350 / f351 / e4 f352
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	38618
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