JB/115/006/001

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17 March, 1792.

Proposal For a new and lefs expensive mode of employing and reforming Convicts.

The author, having turned his thoughts to the Penitentiary System from its first origin, and having lately contrived a building in which any member of persons may be kept within the reach of being inspected during every moment of their lives, and having made out as he flatters himself to demonstration, that the only eligible mode of managing an establishment of such a nature, in a building of such a construction would be by contract, has been induced to public the following proposal for maintaining and employing convicts in general, or such of them as would otherwise be confined on board the Hulks, for percent lefs than it costs Government to maintain them there are present; deducting also the average value of the work at present performed by them for Government upon the terms of his receiving the produce of their labour, taking on himself the whole expence of building, without any advance to be made by Government for that purpose, requiring only that the abatement and deduction abovementioned shall be suspended for the first year.

Identifier: | JB/115/006/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 115.
Date_1	1792-03-17	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	115	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	006	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	proposal / for a new and less expensive mode / of / employing and reforming convicts
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	37381
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