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in which they were employed during their confinement, without any further<lb/> | in which they were employed during their confinement, without any further<lb/> | ||
expence to Government.</p> | expence to Government.</p> | ||
<p>XIV. To make himself personally responsible for the reformatory efficacy of his management,<lb/> | |||
and even make amends, in most instances, for any accident of its<lb/> | |||
failure, by paying a sum of money for every Prisoner convicted of a Felony<lb/> | |||
after his discharge, at a rate, increasing according to the number of years he<lb/> | |||
had been under the Proposer's care, viz. a sum not exceeding 10l. if the<lb/> | |||
Prisoner had been in the Penitentiary Panopticon one year : not exceeding 15l.<lb/> | |||
if two years ; not exceeding 20i. if three years ; not exceeding 25l. if four<lb/> | |||
years ; not exceeding 30l. if five years or upward : such sum to be paid immediately<lb/> | |||
on conviction, and to be applied to the indemnification of the persons<lb/> | |||
injured by such subsequent offence, and to be equal in amount to the value of<lb/> | |||
the injury, so long as it did not exceed the sums respectively above specified. | |||
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IX. To pay a penal sum for every escape, with or without any default of his, irresistible
violence from without excepted ; and this without employing irons on
any occasion, or in any shape.
X. To provide them with spiritual and medical Assistants, constantly living in the
midst of them, and incessantly keeping them in view.
XI. To pay a sum of money for every one who dies under his care, taking thereby
upon him the insurance of their lives for an ordinary premium : and that at a
rate grounded on an average of the number of deaths, not among imprisoned
Felons, but among persons of the same ages in a state of liberty within the Bills
of Mortality.
XII. To lay for them the foundation-stone of a provision for old-age, upon the plan
of the Annuity Societies.
XIII. To insure to them a livelihood, at the expiration of their terms, by setting up a
Subsidiary Establishment, into which all such as thought proper, should be
admitted, and in which they would be continued in the exercise of the trades
in which they were employed during their confinement, without any further
expence to Government.
XIV. To make himself personally responsible for the reformatory efficacy of his management,
and even make amends, in most instances, for any accident of its
failure, by paying a sum of money for every Prisoner convicted of a Felony
after his discharge, at a rate, increasing according to the number of years he
had been under the Proposer's care, viz. a sum not exceeding 10l. if the
Prisoner had been in the Penitentiary Panopticon one year : not exceeding 15l.
if two years ; not exceeding 20i. if three years ; not exceeding 25l. if four
years ; not exceeding 30l. if five years or upward : such sum to be paid immediately
on conviction, and to be applied to the indemnification of the persons
injured by such subsequent offence, and to be equal in amount to the value of
the injury, so long as it did not exceed the sums respectively above specified.
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