A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their PreventionColquhoun, Patrick
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A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention
Colquhoun, Patrick
Crime -- England -- London; Police -- England -- London
XIII. To insure to them a _livelihood_, at the expiration of
their terms, by setting up a _Subsidiary Establishment_,
into which all such as thought proper, should be admitted,
and in which they would be continued in the exercise of the
trades in which they were employed during their confinement,
without any further expence to Government.
XIV. To make himself personally responsible for the
reformatory efficacy of his management, and even make
amends, in most instances, for any accident of its failure,
by paying a sum of money for every Prisoner 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, viz. a sum not exceeding 10_l._ if the Prisoner had
been in the Penitentiary Panopticon _one_ year: not
exceeding 15_l._ if _two_ years; not exceeding 20_l._ if
_three_ years; not exceeding 25_l._ if _four_ years; not
exceeding 30_l._ if _five_ years or upwards: such sum to be
paid immediately on conviction, and to be applied to the
indemnification of the persons injured by such subsequent
offence, and to be equal in amount to the value of the
injury, so long as it did not exceed the sums respectively
above specified.
XV. To present to the Court of King's Bench, on a certain
day of every Term, and afterwards print and publish, at his
own expence, a Report, exhibiting, in detail, the state,
not only moral and medical, but economical, of the
Establishment; showing 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 Court or Officer of the
Crown, but, by leave of the Court, on the part of any person
whatsoever; questions, the answer to which might tend to
subject him to conviction, though it were for a capital
crime, not excepted: treading under foot a maxim, invented
by the guilty for the benefit of the guilty, and from which
none but the guilty ever derived any advantage.
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