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The design was — that Convicts once sent there should
never come back again. The plan, if there had been any
such thing, about the return of Convicts, would have been
dictated either by what I call justice (in which case it would
have run counter to the design) or by the supposed profitable
injustice. On the former supposition, arrangements would have been
taken in the first place, for preventing the emigration of each
Convict before the expiration of his legal terms of punishment—
in the next place, for affording him the means of quitting the
Country immediately after — if such should be his choice: — arrangements,
if not of the positive cast, at any rate of the negative
viz: by removing from that time forwards whatever
obstacle might till then have been opposed as such to his escape.
Whatever had been the term of punishment fixed by each man's
sentence — fourteen years — between fourteen years and seven years —
seven years or any shorter term — care would have been taken at
any rate, that from and after the expiration of it, his return
should not be opposed by any positive and—factitious obstacle, the
the effect of which would be to render it more difficult from this
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panopticon versus new south wales |
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n. s. wales |
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copy/fair copy sheet |
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john herbert koe |
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