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Letter XII. Checks on the Contractor.
enough, the presence of one or more persons, besides him by whom the
correction was actually administered, might be required as witnesses of
the mode and quantum of correction, and of the alledged cause.
But besides preventing his starving them or using them ill, there
is another thing I should be much inclined to do, in order to make it
his interest to take care of them. I would
make him pay so much for every one that died, without troubling myself
whither any care of his could have kept the man alive. To be sure he
would make me pay for this in the contract: but as I should receive
it from him afterwards, what it cost me in the long run would be
not great matter. He would get underwriter's profit by me; but let
him get that and welcome.
Suppose three hundred prisoners: and that, out of that
number of persons of their ages, ten, that is one out of thirty, ought
die ever year, were they taken at large. But persons of their character
and in their condition, it may be expected, will die faster than
honest men. Say therefore one in twenty: though I believe, as Jails
stand at present, if no more than one in ten die, or, for aught
know, out of a much smaller number, it may be thought very wel
Give the Contractor then for every man that ought to die for instance
ten pound: that sum, repeated for every man in twenty among
three hundred, will amount to a hundred and fifty pound. Upon the terms
An Epidemical Disease might Ruin
him.
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