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Excerpt from A Statistical View of the Operation of the Penal Code of Pennsylvania: To Which Is Added a View of the Present State of the Penitentiary and Prison in the City of Philadelphia Being a view of the operation of the penal code, for a period of not quite eight years, from 1779, to 1786, the year in which the number of capital crimes, was first reduced. 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.