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No doubt but great Expectations may be formed as to their becoming usefull [useful] Members to Society from the mode intended to be pursued by W R in Seperating the Good from the Bad and the Men from the Boys all the Boys at present are Confined in the Same Prison with the Men many of them not 15 Years of Age where they must be bought all sorts of Wickedness and initiated in all manner of Vice which only tends to enflame their Young Minds against the Laws of their Country and make them ten-times worse than before.
Beside the above benefits one will accrue by W. Rs mode which is as many of them have been brought up in Idleness and have no way whatever of getting their Bread if they were willing to work and of Course from that and Bad Company were brought to their Sentence some method of Employ will be taught them that when their Sentence expires they may get an honest livelyhood by if they Chuse which no doubt Numbers