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Police Report
Expence of punishment
N.S. Wales
-ceptions to any such effect may have been
entertained, or if entertained , it is
not within the province of Your Committee
to enquire: in the present instance no such
conception appears to have been so much as entertained.
Your Committee have ventured to speak
of the expence of a Colony such as that in
question as naturally boundless incapable of all bounds : a variety of
circumstances present themselves, any one of
them almost as being enough to render it so. On
board the Hulks or in a Penitentiary House
no article of expence comes to be incurred, but
in the exact proportion and at the exact time
in at which the each article of supply is wanted:
to a place of confinement at 7 months distance,
if there is to be at all times enough a sufficiency of each article
there must always in the instance of a multitude
of articles there must often be an enormous
superfluity: Medicines, furniture, cloathing
of various kinds, tools
and implements of husbandry
every thing article of gradual contingent or
occasional demand must
be almost always in excess:
the greater the stock and more
the article, the greater the room for decay and loss by
plundery accident and decay: and to make
provide against this loss more excess is necessary.
In England, not to speak of Asia, Africa &
Europe scarcity in any one place finds a tolerably
sure relief in the superfluity of another:
In New South Wales a bad season, a war
with the Natives an insurrection among the Convicts, a mutiny in the army
or a distemper among the cattle
any one of these causes may might be sufficient
to breed a famine: and unless there is more constantly
a great deal more than enough for ordinary
exigencies there can never be enough for
extraordinary ones. Bills drawn by persons
in
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panopticon versus new south wales; police bill |
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jeremy bentham |
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