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Permanent Penitentiary House and for a twelvemonth
afterwards those who go out must therefore take their chance
as at present; unless Government thought fit to charge itself
with the necessary expence in which case no exertion 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 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.

8th The Sum to be advanced, as above, for the Temporary
Establishment, to be sufficient to afford room for 2,000
Prisoners, at £7: 10s: 0d p Head: viz: £15,000. The number of
those existing in the Gaols and Hulks together at the time of
the returns Printed in the 28th Report of the Committee of Finance,
appears to be short of 1900: but some room for contingent addition
must be made; and, for as far as two or three hundred beyond
the 2000, I would engage to provide the same rate of £7.10s a head, without any such additional expence as that of another Penitentiary House on purpose.

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 Draught but from an intimation thereupon given
me by that Gentleman, that no Prisoner who had less than a year to serve would

Identifier: | JB/117/090/004 "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	090	Info in main headings field
Image	004	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner		Watermarks	tw 1794
Marginals		Paper Producer	francis hall
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public	copy of letter at 117-085 to 117-089; not sent; see note 2 to letter 1357, vol. 6	ID Number	38707
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