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IX. To pay a penal sum for every escape, with or without any default of his, irre sistible
violence from without excepted; and this without employing irons on
any occasion, or in any shape.
X. To provide them with Spiritual and medical Assistants, constantly living in the
midst of them, and incessantly keeping them in view.
XI. To pay a sum of money for every one who dies under his care, taking thereby
upon him the insurance of their lives for an ordinary premium: and that at a
rate grounded on an average of the number of deaths, not among imprisoned
Felons, but among persons of the same ages in a state of liberty within the Bills
of Mortality.
XII. To lay for them the foundation-stone of a provision for old-age, upon the plan
of the Annuity Societies.
XIII. To insure to them a livelihood, at the expiration of their terms, by setting up a
Subsidiary Establishment, into which all such as thought proper, should be
admitted, and in which they were employed during their confinement, without any further
expence to Government.
XIV. To make himself personally responsible for the reformatory efficacy of his ma
nagement, and even make amends, in most instances, for any accident of its
failure, by paying a sum of money for every prisoner convicted of a Felony
after his discharge, at a rate, increasing according to the number of years he
had been under the Proposer's care, viz. a sum not exceeding 10l. if the
Prisoner had been in the Penitentiary Panopticon one year: not exceeding 15l.
if two years; not exceeding 30l. if 5 years or upwards: such sum to be paid imme
diately on conviction, and to be applied to the indemnification of the persons
injured by such subsequent offense, and to be equal in amount to the value of
the injury, so long as it did not exceed the sums respectively above specified.
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XV. To present the Court of King's Bench, on a certain day of every Term, and
afterwords print and publish, at his own expence, a Report, exhibiting, in de
tail, the state, not only moral and medical, but economical, of the Establishment;
showing the whole profits, if any, and in what manner they arise; and then and
there, as well as on any other day, upon summons from the Court, to make
answer to all such questions as shall be put to him in relation thereto, not only
on the part of the Court or Officer
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