JB/116/650/015

Click Here To Edit

National Penitentiary Houses Cap. 74. GEORGII III. REGIS. 1397

of the Offices belonging thereto; or any Ground
improved as Pleasure Ground, or planted with Wood; or any inclosed
Ground immediately adjoining to any House, Park,
Paddock, Garden, Orchard, Yard, or Pleasure Ground,
and occupied therewith.

Supervisors to superintend the Erection of the Houses, &c.
14 And be it further enacted, That the said Supervisors,
or any two of them, shall contract with proper Persons for
erecting such Penitentiary Houses, together with the several Buildings and Enclosures thereunto belonging,
and shall superintend the Erection of such Houses and
Buildings, and the due Performance of such Contracts
as shall be entered into touching the same; and the said
One of which shall be large enough to contain 600 Males, and the other 300 Females; with proper Storehouses, &c.
Penitentiary Houses shall be made sufficiently large to
contain, the one of them Six hundred Male Convicts,
and the other of them Three hundred Female Convicts;
and each of such Houses, or the Buildings and Enclosure
thereunto belonging, shall contain proper Storehouses,
Warehouses, Workhouses, and Lodging-rooms, an
Infirmary, a Chapel and Burying-ground, a Prison
divided into dark but airy Dungeons, a Kitchen Garden,
and also proper airing Grounds, Yards, Offices, and
other necessary apartments for the several Officers and
Servants herein-after directed to be appointed: Provided
A Plan of the Buildings, and an Estimate of the Expence, to be approved of by the Lord Chancellor, &c.
always, that That before any such contracts shall be made or
entered into by the said Supervisors, the Plan of such
Houses and Buildings, with the Estimates of the Expence
of erecting the same, shall be laid before, and approved of
by, the same Persons to whom the Approbation of the
Piece or Pieces of Ground whereon the same are intended
to be erected is herein-before referred, or by any Eight or
more of them: Provided also, That the Expences of
Expences of purchasing the Ground, and erecting the Buildings, &c. to be defrayed by Warrants from the Treasury.
purchasing the said Ground, of erecting the said Buildings,
and of making a proper Compensation to the said
Supervisors for their Trouble and Charges, being previously
examined and settled, from Time to Time, by the
Justices of the Peace of the County or Place wherein
such Ground shall be situated, at their Quarter or
other

16E

Identifier: | JB/116/650/015 "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	015	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
Box Contents