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1 Report (28th) of the Finance Committee so much as concerns Mr. Benthams Contract Plan

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It did not therefore escape your Committee, that Mr.
Colquhoun in pointing out the Errors of the present Mode,
speaks of an improved System for the Employment of
Convicts, as One of the chief measures by which the Expenses
of the Police are to be diminished.

Your Committee therefore were induced to inquire whether
that Gentlemen had any particular System in view in ← Extract from
making that observation; and they learnt with considerable
sSatisfaction that Mr. Colquhoun (who appears himself to
have submitted a Plan to the Secretary of State for this purpose)
did allude to a particular System, from which, according
to his decided opinion, if adopted and carried into execution,
infinite Advantage would arise to the Public; not only in
the Diminution of the Expense at present incurred, but in the
Improvements of the Morals of the Convicts who may be placed
under such an Establishment; your Committee have therefore
annexed to this Report a Sketch of that Plan, contained in
a Printed Paper, intituled, "A Proposal for a new and less
"expensive Mode for employing and reforming Convicts".

Impressed with the advantages, of which the Perusal of the
Heads of the Plan appears to justify the Expectation,
Your Committee were gratified in finding that it had
already attracted the Attention and obtained the
Encouragement of His Majesty's Government.

That so long ago as the 11th of June 1794 the Sum
of £2,000 had been actually granted to Proposer,
Jeremy Bentham, Esquire, under Warrant from the
Treasury

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