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said Jeremy Bentham and his Successors shall be made
Creditors to the like amount for every such Convict or
Prisoner who shall have so escaped and may be retaken
at his or their Costs within the Term of 6 Calendar Months
next after every such Escape.

Article 17th

The Life of every such Convict or Prisoner as aforesaid
shall be insured by the said Jeremy Bentham
and his Successors (Governor or Governors as aforesaid) at
the rate of £100 for each such Convict or Prisoner for
and in consideration of a proportionable Premium to be
paid by the said Lords Commissioners and their Successors
as followeth (that is to say) a Computation shall be
formed of the number of Deaths that may reasonably
be expected to take place among such Convicts or Prisoners in
the course of each Year and out of the said original
number of 1000 Prisoners living at the Commencement of
each Year taking for the Standard or Date of such
Computation the Annual proportion of the Sum total
of the Deaths at the end of a Year to that of Persons
living at the Commencement of the said Year according to
the London Bills of Mortality and the Calculations
grounded thereon by the late Reverend Dr Price provided
that in the first Years Account in the computation
of the Deaths so to be expected according to the said
Bills and Calculations the whole number of Deaths
among Persons of all Ages shall be taken into such
Account but that in the Account of every subsequent
Year all Ages under those of ten and above 55 Years shall

Identifier: | JB/118/224/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	224	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f17 / f18
Penner		Watermarks	j whatman
Marginals		Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	39278
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