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ANNO TRICESIMO QUARTO
Georgii III. Regis.

CAP. LXXXIV
An Act for erecting a Penitentiary House or Houses
for confining and employing Convicts
[7th July 1794.]

WHEREAS by an Act, made in the Nineteenth Year of Preamble 19. Geo. III, Cap 74, recited
the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, An Act to
explain and amend the Laws relating to the Transportation,
Imprisonment, and other Punishment of certain Offenders, His
Majesty is enabled to appoint Supervisors for building
Two Penitentiary Houses for confining and employing
in Hard Labour, such Persons convicted of transportable Crimes within
England or Wales, as are therein mentioned, which Supervisors should
fix upon any Piece or Pieces of Ground which might be lawfully purchased
under the Powers of the said Act, and the same being approved
of to contract for the absolute Purchase, in Fee Simple, of the Piece
or Pieces of Ground for the Purpose of erecting thereon such Penitentiary
Houses, and other Buildings and Inclosures, in such Manner as therein
is directed, and which Ground so to be purchased should be conveyed as
therein is expressed; and that if any Corporations, Husbands, Guardians,
Committees, Executors, Administrators, or other Trustees, or any Person
or Persons for the Time being interested in any such Piece or Pieces of
Ground upon Notice to him, her, or them given, as therein in mentioned,

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Identifier: | JB/116/652/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1794-07-07	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	652	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles	sheet extracted from the penitentiary contract act 34 g.3.c.84 § 6 as referred to in a letter from mr bentham to mr secretary long dated 31st january 1800
Category	printed material	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	(1219-1228)
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	annotated by bentham; see note 10 to letter 1494, vol. 6, of which this is the original annotated copy of the act	ID Number	38185
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