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<!-- please see the pencil deletion of the first 3 paragraphs up to and including the section starting '12th', and also the large bracket with comment to the right of the folio. In a recent folio I do indeed remember all of these sections having been included in the final draft of this proposal, so I'm certain they were not subsequently deleted in the recent published book folios that I transcribed (and for which you have now protected because of duplicate copies somewhere else in the UCL collection --> | |||
<head>Panopticon Convict Proposal 1793</head> | |||
<p>10<hi rend='superscript'>th</hi>. To provide them with <hi rend='underline'>spiritual</hi> and | |||
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<hi rend='underline'>medical</hi> assistants constantly living in | |||
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the midst of them, and incessantly keeping | |||
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them in view. | |||
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<p>11<hi rend='superscript'>th</hi>. To pay a sum of money for every one who | |||
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<hi rend='underline'>dies</hi> under his care, taking thereby upon him | |||
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the insurance of their lives, for an ordinary | |||
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premium : and <add>that</add> at a rate grounded on an | |||
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average of the number of deaths, not among | |||
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imprisoned felons, but among persons of the | |||
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same ages in a state of liberty, within the | |||
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Bills of Mortablity. | |||
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<p>12<hi rend='superscript'>th</hi>. To lay for them the foundation stone of a | |||
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<hi rend='underline'>provision for old age</hi>, upon the plan of the | |||
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<hi rend='underline'>Annuity-Societies</hi>. | |||
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<p>13<hi rend='superscript'>th</hi>. To insure to them a <hi rend='underline'>livelihood</hi> at the expiration | |||
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of their terms : by setting up a subsidiary | |||
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establishment into which all such as thought | |||
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proper should be admitted, and in which | |||
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they would be continued in the exercise of | |||
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the trades in which they were employed during | |||
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their confinement, without any <sic>farther</sic> | |||
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expence to Government. | |||
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<p>14<hi rend='superscript'>th</hi> To make himself personally responsible | |||
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for the reformatory efficacy of him management, | |||
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and even make amends in most instances for | |||
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any accident of its failure, by paying a sum | |||
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of money for every prisoner convicted of a | |||
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felony after his discharge, at a rate increasing | |||
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according to the number of years he had been | |||
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under the proposer's care : viz : a sum not exceeding | |||
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£10. if the prisoner had been in the | |||
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Penitentiary Panopticon <hi rend='underline'>one</hi> year : not exceeding | |||
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£15. if 2 years : not exceeding £20 if 3 | |||
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years : not exceeding <add>£</add>25 if 4 years : not exceeding | |||
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£30 if 5 years or upwards : such sums | |||
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Panopticon Convict Proposal 1793
10th. To provide them with spiritual and
medical assistants constantly living in
the midst of them, and incessantly keeping
them in view.
11th. 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 Mortablity.
12th. To lay for them the foundation stone of a
provision for old age, upon the plan of the
Annuity-Societies.
13th. 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 farther
expence to Government.
14th To make himself personally responsible
for the reformatory efficacy of him 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
£10. if the prisoner had been in the
Penitentiary Panopticon one year : not exceeding
£15. if 2 years : not exceeding £20 if 3
years : not exceeding £25 if 4 years : not exceeding
£30 if 5 years or upwards : such sums
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