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But if the possibility of this decrease of expense be not taken into the calculation, the attention should at least be directed to the circumstance, that the costs for the superintendence and care of the prisons, which in 1834 amounted to 245,380 R:dr B:co (about 20,440 £), arose in 1837 to 464,781 R:dr (about 38,730 £), which makes an increase of 219,401 R:dr (19,950 £) and that consequently if the reform in question is not carried into execution, the state will at all events be loaded with an increased charge, perfectly answering the interest of the capital necessary for the building, amounting only to 138,891 R:dr B:co (about 11,570 £). If to this be added the value of those day’s work which are lost in our prisons, the injurious effects of our present system of punishment, even in a financial point of view, will be tolerably evident.
Although I have considered it right to take up the whole cost of the plan, in order not to lead to an extensive undertaking, without having first openly shown what sacrifices it will require, it is by no means my intention, that the whole sum should be immediately appointed.
To erect at once so many extensive buildings would, besides other inconveniences, considerably increase the price of building-materials, and thus cause the expenses to exceed the estimate, which is made according to the usual prices.
It also appears to me desirable, that some experience as to the practical application of the
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