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'' | <head>Hulks Complete</head> | ||
<p>men are not allow'd to go into the Hospitals. The<lb/>smell of the Hospital don't affect the other parts of<lb/>the Ship. The Hospital don't smell of <gap/>.</p> | |||
<p>The Surgeon provides the medicines and I pay<lb/>him for them.</p> | |||
<p>I have been employ'd in transporting<lb/> men many years. I had £5 a man. The<lb/>£5 was for nourishing them and their conveyance.</p> | |||
<p>I carried them to Virginia and Maryland:<lb/>those were the only places I could contract to carry<lb/>them to. I enquired about the Floridas and<lb/>was told they could not take one ship's load. I<lb/> don't know the Floridas.</p> | |||
<p>Transported Felons are employ'd in Maryland<lb/>in manual labour.</p> | |||
<p>I have been in Virginia and Maryland<lb/>and have heard that Robberies have lately been<lb/>committed by Felons sent there, but they did not<lb/>rob in those colonies, but in the neighbouring ones.</p> | |||
<p>To send Felons to Florida the <sic>expence</sic><lb/>would be so great I would not contract to carry them<lb/>there.</p> | |||
<p>In the West India Islands there is a Law<lb/>to prohibit taking Transports: they are obliged<lb/>to keep a proportion of whites to the Blacks, &<lb/>convicts are not considered among the Whites.</p> | |||
<p>I have heard of great losses — of deaths in<lb/>Families in Virginia and Maryland, which are imputed<lb/>to the infection received from the Convicts.</p> | |||
<p>The Navigation to S<hi rend="superscript">t</hi> Augustine & Pensacola is<lb/>more difficult than to America, especially for a ship of any size.</p> | |||
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Hulks Complete
men are not allow'd to go into the Hospitals. The
smell of the Hospital don't affect the other parts of
the Ship. The Hospital don't smell of .
The Surgeon provides the medicines and I pay
him for them.
I have been employ'd in transporting
men many years. I had £5 a man. The
£5 was for nourishing them and their conveyance.
I carried them to Virginia and Maryland:
those were the only places I could contract to carry
them to. I enquired about the Floridas and
was told they could not take one ship's load. I
don't know the Floridas.
Transported Felons are employ'd in Maryland
in manual labour.
I have been in Virginia and Maryland
and have heard that Robberies have lately been
committed by Felons sent there, but they did not
rob in those colonies, but in the neighbouring ones.
To send Felons to Florida the expence
would be so great I would not contract to carry them
there.
In the West India Islands there is a Law
to prohibit taking Transports: they are obliged
to keep a proportion of whites to the Blacks, &
convicts are not considered among the Whites.
I have heard of great losses — of deaths in
Families in Virginia and Maryland, which are imputed
to the infection received from the Convicts.
The Navigation to St Augustine & Pensacola is
more difficult than to America, especially for a ship of any size.
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]] |
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