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Police Report 5
Mr Bentham's
Penitentiary
Plan
Annual expence per thousand and per head
of Mr Bentham's
Penitentiary plan since the
increase that has been made in it by delay
change of plan necessary to the removal of legal difficulties -
- also by delays
and other causes not imputable to Mr Bentham.
Original allowance for a thousand
as before - - - - - - - - - - - - £12,000
Addition requisite to be made
thereto on account of the rise
that has taken place in provisions
since 1793 1d a day per man
= £1:10:5: a year per man
for a thousand men - - - - - - - £1,521:s16:d8
Capital upon which annual interest
is to be reckoned in addition to
the annual headmoney - - - - - -
1 Allowance towards the Building,
as before - - - - - - - - - - - £ 15,000
2 One years interest on do as before - 750
3 Do on £5000 as before - - - - - 250
Required and allowed to on
account of the rise in the prices of materials
partly by taxes, p (which
will be received back by government)
partly by other causes - - - 4,000
One years interest upon do before
the opening of the Prison - - - - 200
Purchase money for 80 acres of
ground in and about Tothill Fields
partly waste and partly in corporate
ownership, but on account
of its superior vicinity to London
more valuable than the same
quantity of land at Battersea
these - to wit not so little
as £10,000 nor so much as
£20,000 - - say - - - - - - - 15,000
One year's interest upon do before
the opening of the prison [+] - - - 750
Total Capital expended - - - - - - 35,950
[+] The It being deemed
necessary that the land
should be purchased on
Government account, so
much means the £1500
for the three year's interest on
£10,000 on the original plan,
is added to the expence
Interest upon the above capital at
5 per Cent 1797. 10
£15,319. 6: 8
Annual expence per head - - - £15: 6: 4
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