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country to observe on all occasions. With the above mentioned plan there is a description of all the different parts, and also an ’estimate of the expense.
The management of an institution for punishment and improvement, established on a large scale, demands a true and enlightened philanthropy, a noble and strong mind, an uncommon love of order and persevering exertions. As it is not easy to unite all these estimable qualities, we soon perceive what difficulties there are to conquer in this respect.
The management is properly divided into two leading parts, namely:
a) The leading direction of the affairs of the establishment, the control over the proper maintenance of order, and finally the preservation of that tie which ought never to cease between the house of punishment and society.
b) The immediate superintendence, the constant inspection, and the persons officially engaged.
The former part should be left to a separate direction where, according to the principle followed throughout this proposal, official activity is united with municipal aid. Two civil officers appointed by the government, and two persons chosen by the confidence of their fellow citizens, would probably be a proper number. The manner of chosing the latter depends, as has before been stated, on the degree of development attained here by the
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