JB/116/650/031

Cap.74. GEORGEII III. REGIS.

ney, equal to that which was allowed to him or her at the Time of his or her Dismission.

The Offenders to be divided into Three Classes, and the Term of their Confinement to be divided into Three equal Parts, etc.

38. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That the several Offenders to be sent to each of such Penitentiary Houses shall be divided into Three Classes, which shall be called, The First, Second, and Third Class; for which Purpose the Time for which such Offenders shall severally be committed shall be divided into Three equal Parts; and during the First Part of the Time of the Imprisonment of every such Offender, he or she shall be ranked in the First Class, and during the Second Part of such Time, he or she shall be ranked in the Second Class, and during the Third and last Part of such Time, he or she shall be ranked in the Third Class; and the Confinement and Labour of such Offenders as shall from Time to Time be ranked in the First Class, shall be the most strict and severe, and the Confinement and Labour of the Offenders ranked in the Second Class, shall be more moderate, and the Confinement and Labour of those ranked in the Third Class, shall be still more relaxed; which Several Degrees of Confinement and Labour, so to be affixed to each Class, shall from Time to Time be settled from the said Committee, by Orders of Regulation to be approved of in Manner aforesaid, but so as not to defeat or elude the special Provisions made and appointed by this Act.

Governor may employ Offenders in the Third Class as Servants, etc.

39. Provided also, That is shall and may be lawful to and for the Governor of each such houses to employ, at his employ, at his Discretion, any of the Offenders aforesaid, who shall be ranked in the said Third Class, as Servants, Overseers, or Assistants, in the Management of the Works, and Care of their fellow Prisoners, instead of being confined to such their daily Labour as aforesaid.

How the Lodging-rooms shall be furnished.

40. And be it further enacted, That each of the Lodging rooms which shall be appointed in the said Penitentiary Houses, for the Offenders so confined therein, shall be provided with an Iron Bedstead, with Matting for lying upon, One or more Hempen Sheets, a Coverlit, and Two or more coarse Blankets; and no Person, except the Officers and Servants of the House, and such Person

Identifier: | JB/116/650/031 "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	031	Titles
Category	printed material	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	(1387-1428)
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Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	enclosed within a wrapper and annotated by bentham	ID Number	38183
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