JB/149/138/001

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2. Transportation to
an already planted
Colony.

Transportation was in this shape, for a
chronical punishment, a very frugal one:
at first indeed the executioner required £5:
but afterwards he was content to do his work
for nothing.+ Whatever the nuisance was, it
rid the country of it for a longer time than
simple imprisonment, consistently with the
principle established by Magna Charta,
could, it was thought, continue.

+ In respect of that
sort of security which in
respects regards ulterior acts of delinquency
considered as commissible
on the part of
the same offender, it was
moreover more efficient
than simple imprisonment
had been used to
be: for whatever

Forced labour, in the situation at least
in which it was thus administered, must
have been not only a frugal mode of punishment,
but a productive one: for in
that country the faculty of contracting that
labour was a subject matter of purchase,
and after deducting the purchase money
paid once for all, and the standing expence
of maintenance a neat profit was still made
and this without those advantages, derivable
from the employment of physical barriers,
such as walls and ditches,+ to secure the presence
of the party from whence the labour was to be
extracted.

+ such as a Penitentiary
Establishment would afford
for securing at all times.

Identifier: | JB/149/138/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 149.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	149	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	138	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	49992
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