JB/117/097/001

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Copy of so much of the
Examination of Patrick Colquhoun Esquire
as Printed in the Appendix to the 20th Report of the
Committee of Finance
(Ordered to be Printed the 26th of June 1798)
as relates to M..<hi rend="underline">r</hi> Benthams Penitentiary Plan.

Question 10. Having stated that it is by an improved
System with respect to the employment of Convicts, that
the expences of the Police are among other means to be
diminished have you any particular improved System
for the Employment of Convicts in View by which you
think the expences of the Police may be diminished?

Answer. Very soon after I became a Police Magistrate
I was so thoroughly convinced of the Practicability
of rendering the average Labour of Convicts with
certain exceptions nearly equal to the expence of maintenance
that I laid before the then Secretary of
State for the Home Department a Plan of a Village
of Industry not only for Minor Convicts but also
a separate Establishment for Persons discharged
from Gaols and unable to gain a Livelyhood or to get
into regular Employment for want of Character thereby
suggesting the means of enabling Convicts imprisoned
for small Offences (whose Labour is at present totally
unproductive) to support themselves in a manner
calculated to ease the Public of the present enormous expence

Identifier: | JB/117/097/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1	1798-06-26	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	097	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	copy of so much of the / examination of patrick colquhoun esquire / as printed in the appendix to the 28th report of the / committee of finance / (ordered to be printed the 26th of june 1798)
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	3
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	g & ep 1794
Marginals		Paper Producer	fr3
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public		ID Number	38714
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