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In other places), as well as preserv- 

 ing them from suffering by the in- 

 clemency of the weather. 



5th. To keep constantly from 

 them, in conformity to the practice 

 so happily received, every kind of 

 strong and spiritous liquors, unless 

 when ordered in the way of medi- 

 cine. 



6th. To maintain them in a state 

 of inviolable, though mitigated se- 

 clusion, in assorted companies, with- 

 out any of those opportunities of 

 promiscuous association, which in 

 other places disturb, if not destroy, 

 whatever good effect can have been 

 expected from occasional solitude. 



7th. To give them interest in 

 their work, by allowing them a share 

 in the produce. 



8th. To convert the prison into a 

 school, and, by extended applica- 

 tion of the principle of the Sunday 

 schools, to return its inhabitants 

 into the world instructed, at least as 

 well as in ordinary schools, in the 

 most useful branches of vulgar learn- 

 ing, as well as in some trade or oc- 

 cupation, whereby they may after- 

 wards earn their livelihood. 



9th. To pay a penal sum for 

 every escape, with or without any 

 default of his, irresistible violence 

 from without excepted, and this 

 witliout employing irons on any 

 occasion, or in any shape. 



10th. To provide them with spi- 

 ritual and medical assistants, con- 

 stantly living in the midst of them, 

 and incessantly keeping them in 

 view. 



1 1 th. To pay a sum of money for 

 every one who dies under his care, 

 taking thereby upon himself the in- 

 surance of their lives for an ordinary 

 premium ; and that at a rate, 

 grounded on the average of the 

 number of deaths, not among im- 

 prisoned felons, but among persons 



of the same ages in a state of liberty 

 within the bills of mortality. 



12. To lay for them the foun- 

 dation-stone of a provision for old 

 age, upon the plan of the annuity 

 societies. 



13th. To insure them a livelihood 

 at the expiration of their term, by 

 setting up a subsidiary establish- 

 ment, into which all such as thought 

 proper should be admitted, and in 

 which they would be continued in 

 the exercise of the trade in which 

 they were employed during their 

 confinement, without any farther 

 expense to government. 



1 4. To make himself personally 

 responsible for the reformatory effi- 

 cacy of his management, and even 

 make amends, in most instances, for 

 any accident of its failure, by pay- 

 ing a sum of money for every pri- 

 soner 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. 



15. To present to the court of 

 king's bench, on a certain day of 

 every term, and afterwards print 

 and publish, at his own expense, a 

 report, exhibiting in detail the state, 

 not only moral and medical, but 

 economical, of the establishment, 

 shewing 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 crown, or officer of the court, 

 but, by leave of the court, on the 

 part of any person whatsoever.— 

 Questions, the answer to which 

 might tend to subject him to con- 

 viction, though it were for a capital 

 crime, not excepted, treading under 

 foot a maxim, invented by the 



