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12 June 1802 37
N. S. Wales 2

is taken of him by the Governor. By what means does
this happen? Conjecture, arriving grounded on the apparent
nature of the case, is all the ground authority I can
pretend to for
the answer which I hear I give. The Merchant, having by
the terms of the Act, and therefore I conclude, by the terms
of the Contract grounded on it, having power to assign the
Convict wh assigns him accordingly to the Governor: to the
Governor in his quality of the agent to the crown and
trustee for the public in that behalf. But suppose
the M Contracting Merchant instead of assigning over
the Convict to the Governor who gives him nothing but a
receipt (payment under the Contract coming from the Treasury
here at home) suppose he tries to assign assigns the man Convict to
some friend of the Convict's own, who for as such will give
a price for him: to the end that, when arrived at this
place of banishment, he may be free. Is there any
thing to prevent any such bargain? At any rate there
is nothing in the Act: [so that should there be any thing
to that effect in a Contract of that sort entered into today, there may be
nothing to that effect in another Contract entered into tomorrow.
By the Act — by law — a Convict [+] can
[+] except in a particular case that will be mentioned presently
not be transported otherwise than by the intervention of
a Contract for that purpose: nor without such a Contract
as puts the fate of the Convict in respect of as to the question <add>difference between</add> freedom
and bondage altogether in the contractor's power of the
Contractor who thereby, if for money or ad favour he
thinks fit to remit to the Convict so much of the punishment
as turns upon that difference, has it compleatly
in his power.
The carried out on Government account Then there must have been some fiction, if the letter of the Act has been observed.

Identifier: | JB/116/208/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-06-12	Marginal Summary Numbering	4
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	208	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2 / f37
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[monogram] 1800]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	37741
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