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Penitentiary House
projected

What the annual expence of thise Penitentiary System
in this its original shape might have amounted
to, can be reached only by conjecture: but grounds
for conjecture are not altogether wanting. As to
the annual expence outgoings many considerations had to
raise it above the Contract expence of the Hulks,
even to sink it below that mark. As With regard to the
profit deduction to be made from that expence by
the profit that might have been reaped from the
labour of the Prisoners, an account that has been
published of the Receipt and Expenditure of the
County of Dorset may aff for the Year 1796 may
afford some clew. By the unwearied exertions
and unceasing vigilance of a distinguished Member
of this House whose merits in this line of public
service are no secret, the profits had been brought for that year were
from that source have been raised to such a pitch as to have been
made as high as brought for that year to £ 495: 0 : 1 ½ which the prison
expences of the same Year to (Prison Salaries
included) amounted amounting for that same Year
to £ 1102 : 15 : 1 ½ : the profit not quite so much as 5/11ths
of the expenditure. Taking then as before £ 22
a year per head as what would have been the probable expenditure per head of
upon the original Penitentiary System and five
—elevenths that is ten parts out of twenty two
as the what would have been the profits, £ 12
per head is thus left for what would have been
the real expence, which added to the £ 16 a year
per head for house-rent makes the annual expence
per head £ 28 a year on the whole. But this estimate Your Committee
(for reasons too long
to be detailed)
Reference to Panopticon?
regard as an extraordinarily favourable one, and indeed
by much too favourable.
Leave this
insertion —
The imperfections in
point of economy
discoverable in that
plan system in respect
of economy
in the shape given
to it by the Act of
1779 have been placed
in so convincing
and instructive
a point of view by
Mr Bentham in
a work printed in 1791 but never as yet
unpublished that
Your Committee have
thought that they
could not do
better than to refer
to it, and such parts
as apply to the present
question have accordingly
printed to serve
as an Appendix to this
Report.

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Identifier: | JB/150/351/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	150	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales; police bill
Folio number	351	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	50572
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