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Supplemental hints and observations

servitude will be but nominal. To obviate this
1st All counter-securities abolishing or limiting
servitude, should be made void. By this means the
convict would at any rate remain be under the power
of a master though it might be of a-master of
his own choosing.

2. No master should be eligible but one who
actually carried on the trade or manufacture in
which the convict shall be proved to have
been bred: and it should be in the power of the
Committee for the district should might not only in the 1st instance
have a negative upon the choice of the master, but, at any have the power
time of remanding the convict at any time (after
hearing the parties) upon making the master a satisfaction
proportioned to the premium given and on
the other to the terms the convict have already served on the one hand refunding a proportionable part of the premium.

3d. The stigma, though not mark of infamy above proposed though it would not be protracted beyond the
time of servitude, would of itself if thought necessary, be on account of the infamy attending it
a punishment of very considerable severity: and what
is to be wished for, it would be the severer in those tosuch
a delinquintswhen in proportion as to whose general character previous to the offense
delinquency was impracticable a good one; that is to one
those whose punishment is upon the plan liable
to be on other accounts too slight.

It must be allow'd that at any rate it will
not be so equal as the servitude of the labour-houses, modulated

Identifier: | JB/119/012/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 119.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	119	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	012	Info in main headings field	supplemental hints and observations a view of the hard-labour bill
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f77 / f78 / f79 / f80
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	39523
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