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employment. Those who understand any trade, should have means to work at it, and for the instruction of the others, agreement should, as far as possible, be entered into with one or more skilful masters who may be depended on, to give the prisoners instruction and advice in the cells on appointed days. From the profits of the prisoner’s labour is taken first the expense for his food; of the remainder a part is given to him when he is sent to his home, and the rest he receives from the clergyman of the parish on his arrival.
A supply of Bibles and other religious books should be kept in the prison for the use of the prisoners. Such as wish to learn to write, are supplied with slates, pencil and necessary writing materials.
The authorities of the district collect all the reports sent from the temporary jails; from which extracts are made according to a given formule, and are delivered to the prison-direction, together with the account of the management and condition of the county-jail.
These statements should be published in the news-paper of the county.
By the new law-project penal-labour is divided into five degrees, according to different periods of punishment. The following different periods are calculated on the retaining or abolition of capital- punishment; in the former case:
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