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II. That supposing the rival fund a more suitable one
there would be no difficulty in transferring the expence
to that rival fund.

I. First then, the proposed fund is not an unsuitable
one.

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1. The proposed is the common national fund. It is
the same fund on which the expence is charged in
the instance of all that portion of the convict population
which is sent to colonize. It is the same
fund on which the expence is charged, in the instance
of all that portion of the same population which is
consigned to the Hulks.

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If as yet, of that portion which has hitherto been
consigned to prisons,— to improved or not improved
prisons,— the expence has hitherto been charged on the
counties, that is on the contributors to the Poor Rates, the
disposition thus made had, I would suppose, for its cause for its cause — not any such
opinion, as that the Poor Rates constituted a fund more suitable
than the National fund, but merely this circumstance,
viz. that the Poor-Rates of each county constituted the only
fund, out of which it was possible to obtain money
for defraying the expence of the sort of prison in
question; viz. a prison situate within the county,
and appropriated to the use of that county, to the
exclusion of every other part of the Kingdom.

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As between the two funds, in any case in which
the option lies open, it will surely not be seriously
contended that the Poors Rate fund is a more suitable
one than the universal national fund.</p>

Of the Poors rate fund the inequality is as manifest
as it is enormous. Contributors, none but House keepers
and those no where in any tolerable proportion to
their means. Rate of contribution in this or that
district some number of times greater than in this or that

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	35-37
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	432	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d34 / f35
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 2118, vol. 8	ID Number	39049
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