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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

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Box

149

Main Headings

panopticon versus new south wales

Folio number

138

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Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

d6

Penner

jeremy bentham

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Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

49992

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