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Supplemental hints and observations

be seen by all who had any intercourse with that
master: and if the stigma were super expedient of stigmatizing were superadded
be able occasionally by all his town's folks the neighbourhood.

3. In point of disabling the convict from doing
further mischief, private it would not hardly in an equal degree
answer the purpose of public servitude. This however
is hardlyscarcely to be consider'd as an objection to it:
since in cases where there appeared upon the supposition of there being any reasonable
ground of apprehending that the continuance of the
mischievous propensity, it would not be adopted. Whether
it be safe or noto let a man out upon these terms
the Committee are to judge. If it be not, the presumption
must be that they will not let him out. It isIt is a
life power to trust them with than that of recommending
for a pardon.

4. Neither is it in an equal degree calculated
to answer the purpose of reformation. But to
this objection there is the same answer as to the
preceding, by the supposition the convict does not
stand so much in need of it being reformed.

5. It is not so </del> divisible managable ; I mean
so susceptible of being increased or diminished at
pleasure as the other. In point of duration indeed
it is: in point of intensity however it is not. This
will depend in a good measure upon the temper of the master; and cannot
as in the labour-houses be modified by settled
rules.

6. Neither does it stand upon a footing altogether
so advantageous in point of remissibility. A man convict indeed who

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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	003	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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