A descriptive plan for erecting a penitentiary house, for the employment of convicts
Subtitle: to which are added, plans for the prevention of frauds and thefts, so far as respects His Majesty's dock-yards, public works, and stores : also, suggestions, adapted to the formation of a law, to subject certain dealers in old iron, copper, lead, ropes, &c. to regulations, calculated at once to prevent thefts, frauds, and embezzlements : and, by advancing the revenue £800,000 per annum, consitute an advantage to the public of nearly one million eight hundred thousand pounds per annum : likewise, some strictures on the alarming progress of the Blackwall rock in the river Thames ... : also a description and drawings of a new-invented life-boat ... : likewise a plan of a rail-way from London to Portsmouth ...
By: by Robert Edington
Series: Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature -- no. 18741; Making of the Modern World
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1803
Place of publication: [s.l.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 85
Subjects: Convict labor; Lifeboats; Prisons; Design and construction; Railroads; Navigation
Notes: Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 18741.