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National Penitentiary Houses Cap.74. GEORGII III. REGIS. 1391

shall and may be lawful for His Majesty, in His Privy
Council, to appoint Three Persons to be Supervisors
of the Buildings to be erected in pursuance of this Act,
and from Time to Time to remove them, or any of them,
and appoint others in the Place of such as shall be so
removed, or shall die, or resign their Trust; and the
said Supervisors, or any two of them, shall, as soon as
conveniently may be, fix upon any Common, Heath, or
Waste, or any other Piece or Pieces of Ground, which may
be lawfully purchased under the powers of this Act, and
which shall be situated within any One of the Counties of
Middlesex, Essex, Kent, or Surrey, upon which they, or
any Two of them, shall erect, or cause to be erected, Two Two plain, strong, and substantial Edifices or Houses, which
shall be called the Penitentiary Houses, for the Purpose of
confining and employing in Hard Labour, in One of the
said Houses, such Male Convicts, and in the other, such
Female Convicts, as, in pursuance of the Powers hereinafter
contained, shall be ordered to Imprisonment and
Hard Labour: Provided always, That in fixing upon
In the Choice of the Ground; special Regard to be had to Healthiness and Accommodation of Water, &c.
such Piece or Pieces of Ground as aforesaid, Regard
shall be especially had to Healthiness and the Accommodation
of Water, avoiding, as far as possible, and Place
where other Buildings are or may be erected contiguous
to, or within a small Distance from the outward Fence
or Inclosure of such Houses, or a Situation within any
populous Town:
The Situation, &c. to be approved of by the Lord Chancellor, the Speaker, the Judges, and Lord Mayor
Provided also, That the Situation
and other Circumstances of such Piece or Pieces of
Ground shall be reported to and approved of by the Lord
Chancellor, the Speaker of the House of Commons,
the Justices of the Courts of King's Bench and Common
Pleas, the Barons of the Coif of the Court of Exchequer,
and the Lord Mayor of London, for the Time being
respectively, or by any Eight or more of them, before the
same shall be finally fixed upon, or any Purchase made of
the same.

After such Approbations the Supervisors to purchase the Ground, which shall be conveyed to
6.And be it further enacted, That when such Piece or
Pieces of Ground shall be fixed upon, with such Approbation
as aforesaid, the said Supervisors, or any Two of
them, shall, as soon as may be, contract for the absolute
Purchase,

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Identifier: | JB/116/650/008 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1779	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	650	Info in main headings field
Image	008	Titles
Category	printed material	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	(1387-1428)
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	enclosed within a wrapper and annotated by bentham	ID Number	38183
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