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37 Letter IX. Penitentiary - houses. Economy - Contract Plan.
indeed, with any part of it. — But of this hereafter.
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In the next place, I would give my Contractor all the powers
that his interest could prompt him to wish for, in order to enable him to make
the the most of it his bargain: with only some very slight reservations, which I
will mention afterwards: for very slight ones you will find they will be, that
can be needful or even serviceable of any service in the view of preventing abuse.
But, the greater latitude he has in taking such measures,
the less will he grudge the letting it be known, what the measures are
which he does take: knowing, at the same time, that no advantage can be
taken of such knowledge, by turning him out in case of his success, and
putting in another to reap the fruits of his contrivance. I will then
require him to disclose, and even to print and publish, his accounts:— the
whole process and detail of his management:— the whole history of the
prison. I will require him, I say, on pain of forfeiture or other adequate
punishment, to publish these accounts, and that upon oath.
I have no fear of his not publishing some accounts, because, if the
time is elapsed and some accounts not published, a fact not liable to
dispute, the punishment takes place of course: and I have not much
fear when that the accounts when published will be true; because having
power to do every thing that is for his advantage, there is nothing which
it is his interest to conceal: and the interest which the punishment for
perjury gives him not to conceal is manifest: more especially as I make
him examinable and cross-examinable viva voce upon oath at any time. H
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