JB/159/149/001

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quantity of force to be employ'd in the application of
it is trusted altogether to the interested caprice discretion of
the Executioner. This suffering therefore of the Delinquent menial and corruptible officer
defends servant of the public has always in his constantly the
power and for a fee is constantly the inclination
to render the punishment much lighter than
it was designed to be by the Judge: in case where
no fee is given he has it in his power and of
course in his inclination to make the punishment
too heavy. By this means The suffering therefore of the delinquent
depends not upon his guilt but upon his poverty.
By far the greater number of instances in which on their delinquents
are made to mode of punishment in question
are is inflicted in this country are those of offences
of indigence and rapacity: hence this pernicious
consequence is apt to follow. If the delinquent has
been unfortunate, and not able to secure his plunder,
or honest, and has voluntarily given it up,
and in either case has nothing left to make a sop for Cerberus, he then
suffers the rigour, perhaps more than the rigour, of
the Law, Good fortune added to and perseverance in
dishonesty enable him to purchase buy indulgence.

A remedy proposed.

The following is [By a contrivance somewhat like the following] that occurred to me as one by which the
above inconvenience might in great measure, I imagine,
if not altogether be avoided. Let the materials
and dimensions of the rods be fixed by Law: let them and for

Identifier: | JB/159/149/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 159.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	149	Info in main headings field	simple afflictive punishments examined
Image	001	Titles	inequality / exemplarity
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	53972
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