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

It appears that of 1,534 Convicts on Board the Hulks
on the 5th June 1798, 93 will be enlarged in this Year.
346 in the next, and 1,411 within the Period of seven Years.

If a similar progress be made in the enlargement of
those who are still confined in the different Goals, the whole
number of Felons that will be turned loose on the Public,
will amount to 1,791 a Discharge at the Rate of 254 per
Annum, continuing for a Period of Seven Years.

Of the 2,934 unemancipated and unsettled Convicts
existing in New South Wales and Norfolk Island, on the
22d of October 1796 it is probable from a consideration of the
Years in which they have been severally sent thither, that
the Periods of Discharge of a still greater number will have
expired in the same Seven Years; and if it could be supposed
that the whole or the greater part would endeavour
to avail themselves of that circumstances to return to the
Scene of their former Delinquency, the Prospect would indeed
be Dreadful, when viewed through the Medium of the
experience which the Magistracy of this Metropolis has
already had of the effect of such returns.

Mr. Colquhouns Testimony on this Point is, that of all
of the Delinquents that have returned from these Settlements,
who have come within the Knowledge, are
either at this Moment Thieves on the Town or have been
executed for new offences.

Your Committee therefore trust, that no further
delay will interfere with the Execution of the Contract
abovementioned, not only because any such Delay would add

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