JB/117/085/004

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several clauses relative to Religious instruction—Medical
assistance—Schooling—Prisoners' share of earnings—
Superannuation—Annuities— in
case of escape—Assurance of Prisoners' lives—Provision
for Prisoners after discharge—Penalty in case of
escapes—and Indemnification-money to the party
injured in case of offences committed after discharge
—all these clauses standing without alteration
as in the approved Draught except in as far as is
herein after immediately expressed.

7. From the above obligations, that of providing employment
and maintenance for the prisoners after the expiration
of their respective terms, would (I am sorry to
think) require to be excepted: since for this purpose
additional buildings would be requisite, such as the Temporary
plan would not admit of.(a) Till the
opening of the Permanent Penitentiary House, and for a
twelvemonth afterwards, those who go off must therefore take their chance
as at present; unless Government thought fit to charge itself with
the necessary expense, in which case no consistent with prudence should be wanting on my part, towards the rendering to the public so important a service. According to a summing up given in made by the 28th Report of the Committee of Finance, the number of those who will come to be discharged from the hulks alone in the course of the Year 1799 amounts to 346.

(a) Even after the opening of the Permanent Establishment
, it would be a twelvemonth at least before this
provision could commence: since, before the expiration
of that period, there could neither be Buildings for
lodging them, funds for maintaining them, nor any sufficient
assurance of a supply of work for employing any
such number of supernumeraries: nor at any period
could I either in point of pecuniary obligation or reputation make
myself responsible for the behaviour of any Convict whom I
had not had under my care for a twelvemonth at least:
for, that I should undertake to make a provision for life for
a man for whom I had not been paid more than perhaps a day or
two, nor had more than that time for disciplining him,
would hardly be expected. This I represented to Mr Nepean,
at the time; and the requisite word of limitation would have been inserted
in the Draught, but for an intimation thereupon given me. By that gentleman, that no Prisoner who had less than a year to serve would be consigned to me. If (as seems likely at present to be the case) Prisoners should come to be consigned to the Penitentiary Establishment without my distinction in this respect (as they are at present to the Hulks) it would be necessary that the requisite words of limitation should be inserted. A set of words per that purpose are accordingly added opposite to that article in the Copy of the Draught.</p>

Identifier: | JB/117/085/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	085	Info in main headings field
Image	004	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	/ / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	tw 1794
Marginals		Paper Producer	francis hall
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public	not sent; see note 7 to letter 1348 and note 2 to letter 1357, vol. 6	ID Number	38702
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