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Police Report
Expence of punishment
N.S.Wales

The reverse of this effect takes place A similar effect takes place in a still
higher degree in the case of death. In the
course of the 12 years the number of of Convicts
shipped off has been 5765 the number remaining
as by the last returns (August and
October 1796) under sentence and emancipated
together, 3114, whereof 44 only stiled emancipated:
difference 2651. This difference,
if all the Convicts remaining in the countrycolony
after the expiration of their terms are included
under the head of emancipated, can
be accounted for in no otherwise than in
one or other of three ways: death (in the
Colony or on the passage) escape before emancipation
or return afterwards. If we place
to the account of rela escapes and returns
together the 151, it seems a large allowance:
then will remain 2500 cut off by death: upon
a total of not more that 5765, a very high
rate of mortality indeed! Had the duration
of life in this community observed the general
law 5,000 for example instead of 3,070 might none have been the
number unemancipated: if instead of costing as
at present £ near £45 a head they these
5000 had cost £40 a head and no more, the apparent
free unfrugality of the of the system would
in this point of view have been thus far reduced,
but the total of the expence of the Colony for this
last year would from £137,000 been increased to
£200,000.

From a document come
in since that paragraph
was written it appears
that 393 convicts were
was the number of convicts
shipped off in 1797. This
number however can not
be added to the 3114 3070
the number of Convicts
men unemancipated and
Convicts, nor to 3114
the number of both classes
taken together: since the
numbers taken off the unemancipated
list by death
and unemanciipation together
can not but be more than
equal to this number coming
in as abovementioned. Emanciptaion
ought to carry off
every years one in six, that
is more than the amount of
the accession above portion
of.

Identifier: | JB/123/241/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 123.
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Box	123	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	241	Info in main headings field	tothill fields bill - heads
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	a6 / f6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public	see note 3 to letter 1392, vol. 6	ID Number	41667
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