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Copy
of so much of the
Examination of Patrick Colquhoun Esquire,
as printed in the Appendix to the 28th Report
of the
Committee on Finance,
(Ordered to be printed the 26th June
1798,)
as relates to Mr Bentham's Penitentiary Plan.

Question 10.

Question 10th. 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

Identifier: | JB/117/100/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1	1798-06-23	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	100	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 on finance / (ordered to be printed the 26th june 1798) / as relates to mr bentham's penitentiary plan
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner		Watermarks	j whatman
Marginals		Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
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