JB/150/309/003

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Very soon after I became a Police Magistrate I was so
thoroughly convinced of the practicability of rendering the average Labour
of Convicts with certain exceptions nearly equal to the expence of
maintenance that I laid before the then Secretary of State for the
home departments of a plan of a Village of Industry not only for minor
Convicts but also a Separate Establishment for persons discharged from
Goals and unable to gain a livelihood or to get into a regular
employment for want of character thereby suggesting the means of
enabling Convicts imprisoned for small offences (whose Labour is at
present totally unproductive) to support themselves in a manner
calculated to ease the Public of the present enormous expence and of
preventing that shocking corruption Morals which is generated in all
Goals where Prisoners live Idly together.

Since that period I have had occasion to consider a plan
digested by Jeremy Bentham Esq.r of Queens Square Place Westminster
in which all the Ideas I had formed on this Interesting Subject
seem to be concentrated with many other improvements which had
not occurred to me and I have no difficulty in giving it as my decided
opinion that if the plan proposed by that Gentleman is adopted &
carried into effect infinite and incalculable advantages will arise to
the Public not only by a very considerable diminution of the enormous
expence at present incurred but in the improvement of the Morals and
in the future utility of the Convicts who may be placed under such
an Establishment.

The Witness in the explanation of the Outlines of Mr Bentham's
Plan delivered in a Paper Entitled
Proposals for a new & less expensive mode of Employing and
Reforming Convicts together with the Outline of a New
Plan of Construction for a Building adapted to that
purpose.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	150	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	309	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	benjamin constant
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	see note to letter 1329, vol. 6	ID Number	50530
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