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<note>Police Report <lb/>Expence of punishment <lb/>N.S. Wales</note> | <note>Police Report <lb/>Expence of punishment <lb/>N.S. Wales</note> | ||
<p>-ceptions to any such effect may have been<lb/>entertained, or if entertained | <p>-ceptions to any such effect may have been<lb/>entertained, or if entertained nutured, it is<lb/>not within the province of Your Committee<lb/>to enquire: in the present instance no such<lb/>conception appears <add>to have been</add> so much as entertained.<lb/></p>Your Committee have ventured to speak<lb/>of the expence of a Colony such as that in<lb/>question as naturally boundless <add>incapable of all bounds</add> : a variety of<lb/>circumstances present themselves, any one of <lb/>them <add>almost</add> as being enough to render it so. On<lb/>board the Hulks or in a Penitentiary House<lb/>no article of expence seems to be incurred, but<lb/>in the exact proportion and at the exact time<lb/>in <add>at</add> which <del>the</del> each article of supply is wanted:<lb/>to a place of confinement at 7 months distance,<lb/>if there is to be at all times enough <add>a sufficiency</add> of each article<lb/><del>there must always</del> in this instance of a multitude<lb/>of articles there must often be an enormous<lb/>superfluity: <note>Medicines, furniture, cloathing <lb/>of various kinds, tools <lb/>implements of husbandry <lb/>every thing <add>article</add> of gradual <add>contingent</add> or <lb/>occasional demand must <lb/>be almost always in excess: </note><lb/>the greater the stock <gap/> <add>and more <gap/></add> <lb/>the article, the greater the room for <del>decay and</del> <add>loss by</add> <lb/>plundery accident and decay: and to make <lb/>provide against this loss more excess is necessary.<lb/>In England, not to speak of Asia, Africa &<lb/>Europe scarcity in any one place finds a <gap/><lb/>sure relief in the superfluity of another:<lb/>In New South Wales a bad season, a war<lb/>with the Natives <add>an insurrection among the Convicts,</add> <note>a mutiny in the army</note><lb/>or a distemper among the cattle<lb/>any one of these causes <del>may</del> might be sufficient<lb/>to breed a famine: and unless there is <del>more</del> <add>constantly</add><lb/>a great deal more than enough for ordinary<lb/>exigencies there can never be enough for<lb/>extraordinary ones. Bills drawn by persons<lb/> <note>in</note><lb/><pb/> | ||
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Police Report
Expence of punishment
N.S. Wales
-ceptions to any such effect may have been
entertained, or if entertained nutured, it is
not within the province of Your Committee
to enquire: in the present instance no such
conception appears to have been so much as entertained.
Your Committee have ventured to speak
of the expence of a Colony such as that in
question as naturally boundless incapable of all bounds : a variety of
circumstances present themselves, any one of
them almost as being enough to render it so. On
board the Hulks or in a Penitentiary House
no article of expence seems to be incurred, but
in the exact proportion and at the exact time
in at which the each article of supply is wanted:
to a place of confinement at 7 months distance,
if there is to be at all times enough a sufficiency of each article
there must always in this instance of a multitude
of articles there must often be an enormous
superfluity: Medicines, furniture, cloathing
of various kinds, tools
implements of husbandry
every thing article of gradual contingent or
occasional demand must
be almost always in excess:
the greater the stock and more
the article, the greater the room for decay and loss by
plundery accident and decay: and to make
provide against this loss more excess is necessary.
In England, not to speak of Asia, Africa &
Europe scarcity in any one place finds a
sure relief in the superfluity of another:
In New South Wales a bad season, a war
with the Natives an insurrection among the Convicts, a mutiny in the army
or a distemper among the cattle
any one of these causes may might be sufficient
to breed a famine: and unless there is more constantly
a great deal more than enough for ordinary
exigencies there can never be enough for
extraordinary ones. Bills drawn by persons
in
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