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Police Report 9
Expence of Punishment
N.S.Wales

It is evident, that supposing the total annual
total of expence to remain the same, if the numbers
provided for encrease, the rate of expence per head
will proportionably decrease diminish:: [if the numbers provided
for decrease, and the rate of expence per head will does proportionably
encrease: supposing the total annual
expence to encrease, if the number provided for remains
the same, the rate of expence per head will
proportionablky encrease:] if the numbers provided for
do not encrease decrease, then if the rate of expence per head
does not encrease, or does not encrease proportionably the total annual expence must
necessarily diminish. In this last way the expence
of this colony seems not unlikely to diminish,
or at any rate, by the operation of
this cause, the rate of encrease appears likely
to be considerably distrained. In this state of
restriction restraint it appears from by an observation from
the Secretary of State's Office || || Appendix that the Convict population
At the end of the Autumn
of the Convicts in Great Britain
of this Colony has continued all along: it is given as the reason
and the only reason why more are not sent, that
in the present state of the Colony in respect of produce,
mor a greater number could not consistently
with security in point of subsistence
be received. Had it not been for this check, more
would have been sent, and though thereby the
annual total of expence would have been encreased:
but as the fixed and general expences of
the Colony would not have received an accession, or
at least any accession equally gradual, the probability
in that case is that for some time at least
the rate of expence per head would not have
encreased but decreased: except and untill in
consideration of the growing encreasing influx of the persons to be
governed, any sudden addition came to be made to the number
number of persons to be
governed sharing in the government
government as in the case of the establishment
of a new-post which addition
would of course be in some degree
a sudden one.

Identifier: | JB/123/243/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 123.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	123	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	243	Info in main headings field	tothill fields bill heads
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	a8 / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	see note 3 to letter 1392, vol. 6	ID Number	41669
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