Excerpt from A View of the Hard-Labour Bill; Being an Abstract of a Pamphlet, Intituled Draught of a Bill, to Punish by Imprisonment and Hard-Labour, Certain Offenders; And to Establish Proper Places for Their Reception This Bill (or draught of a Bill, as it is called in the title, not having been as yet; brought into Parliament) is accompanied with apreface, Ibort, indeed, but ample, mallerly, and infiruetive. In this preface an inflruftive but general idea is given of the theoretic principles upon which the plan of the Bill is grounded; and a more ample and detailed account of the documents which furnilhed materials and reafons for the feveral provifions of detail. A hiltory of the f'teps that have been taken in the formation and profecution of the plan is alfo interwoven. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.