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Art.17. 17 Penalty for escape In case of Escape the said Jeremy Bentham
and his said Successors shall respectively be made Debtors
in their quarterly account to the amount of £50 for every instance
of such escape, irresistible violence from without excepted: provided
that they shall be made Creditors to the like amount in
case of recapture.

Art.18. 18 Governor to insure Prisoner's lives The life of each Prisoner is to be insured by the
said Jeremy Bentham and his Successors at the rate of £100 a
head for a proportionable premium to be paid by the said
Lords Commissioners and their Successors as follows. A computation
shall be formed of the number of deaths that may be
expected to take place among the Prisoners in the course of
each year out of the said number of a thousand Prisoners
living at the commencement of such year , taking for the
standard the annual proportion of the sum total of deaths at the end of
a year to that of persons living at the commencement of the
said year, according to the London Bills of Mortality, and
'the calculations thereon grounded by the late Rev:d Dr Price.
Such computation being made, the said Jeremy Bentham &
his Successors shall at the end of each year be on the one
hand be made Creditors to the amount of £100 for every death
which in the course of the said year might according to such
computation have been expected to take place among the said
Prisoners, and on the other hand Debtors to the said amount
of £100 for every death which within the said period shall
actually have taken place. As for example, suppose the number
of deaths expected to have taken place at the end of the year
to be to the number of persons living at the commencement
of the said year as 1 to 25, this for the said intended number of

Identifier: | JB/115/086/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 115.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	6-19
Box	115	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	086	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d9 / d10 / d11 / d12
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	37461
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