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1410 ANNO REGNI DECIMO NONO Cap. 74

nine feet in heighth, and without any window within
six feet of the respective floors; which rooms or cells
shall be dried and moderately warmed, in damp or cold
Weather, by flues from the fires in the kitchens, and
and during the Hours of Labour also to be kept separate as much as the Nature of their Employments will allow.
other publick fires belonging to each house; and the
paid offenders shall also, during their hours of Labour,
in case the nature of their federal employments will
permit, be in like Manner kept separate and apart from
each other; and where the Nature of the Employment
may require Two Persons to work together, the Room
in which such Two Persons shall work shall be of suitable
Dimensions; and if the Nature of the Work wherein
any such Offenders shall be employed shall require the
Labour of many Persons at one Time, a common
Work-room or Shed shall be allotted to them for that
Purpose; but during the Time the Offenders are employed
in such common Work-room or Shed, the Governor
of their Servants or Assistants, shall be constantly
present, to attend to the Behaviour of such Offenders;
and such Two or more persons shall not be suffered to
continue together, except during the hours of Labour,
and Divine Service, and the Times respectively allotted
for their Meals and Airings.

The Hours of Work in different Parts of the Year.
34. And be it further enacted, That such Offenders shall
be employed in Work, at the said Penitentiary Houses,
every Day in the Year, except Sundays, Christmas-day,
and Good Friday, and also expect such Days when ill
health will not allow of their working; and the hours of
Work each Day shall be as many as the Season of the
Year, with an Interval of half an hour for Breakfast,
and an hour for Dinner, will permit, but not exceeding
Eight hours in the Months of November, December,
and January, Nine hours in the Months of February
and October, and Ten hours in the rest of the Year;
and when such hours of Work are passed, the working
Tools, Implements, and Materials, or such of them as
will admit of daily Removal, shall be removed to Places
proper for their safe Custody, and there be kept till the
hour of Labour shall return. And

Identifier: | JB/116/650/028 "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	028	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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