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4. If after all, it were deemed necessary, that to each 29
such discharged Convict means of conveyance
to the place of his choice, whatever it be, should be
afforded at the public change, a mode beyond comparison
less expensive, than providing, though it
were no more than a single prison, in this sole
view, would be—the putting into his pocket a sum
of money, under the expectation of its being applied to
this purpose. But, as the ascertaining, upon any
satisfactory evidence, the spot really desired could
be plainly impossible, the spot most distant from the
Penitentiary House in question: for as that now
distant spot is the spot that would command
most money, that would of course be the declared
spot of each man's choice.

But even this maximum — meaning the annual
sum of all these maximums — would be a mere
nothing trifle, in comparison of an additional
prison to be built and kept up on
purpose.

Not being voters, Honourable Gentlemen would
not, I presume, look upon it as necessary that
men of this description should be conveyed to Yarmouth
to Carlisle or to the Land's end in
Vostok ilses on the contraryAs to convey once, the means of locomotion
derived from by each man from the bounty
of nature, would for this mere purpose of locomotion
be, I presume, regarded as sufficient: of the maximum
in question the maximum would therefore be neither more or
nor

Identifier: | JB/117/428/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	29
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	428	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d26 / f29
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public	letter 2118, vol. 8	ID Number	39045
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