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Of Theft
From p.26 par.1

2: Because it may happen that the offender
has been bred to a kind of labour which has been
a greater price than the rough labour which
he would be put to in the way of punishment.
If then he was put perpetually Put him to the
rough work,as take him from the work he has
been bred to, it is so much left to the national
stock: keep him from it perpetually all his life
long, that loss will be considerable. A good ship-hand <add>prison-wright</add>
in the ship building way for instance may at this hour (Ao 1780) earn
to the amount of half a guinea a day in
England; a first rate prime hand in the mathematical instrument
making way may come to that amount at any time
. The same man if set to beating hemp or
or picking oakham would not earn either
of them 6d a day. If Confine such a man then for a year
to picking of oakham and the loss to the nation
is £156. Confine him for 20 years, and the
loss is £ 3120.

From p.32
made restitution of any part together with perfect computation it is as if that part
had never been taken. Now, provided the Law
will give the offender a motive for doing
it, this is what may very now and then take
place. It may happen that the sudden exigency for which drove

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	051	Info in main headings field	of theft
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f33 / f34 / f35 / f36
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	alexander mavrokordatos
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23454
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