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1222 ANNO REGNI TRICESIMO QUARTO Cap. 84
particular Purpose of confining transportable and other Convicts within
the same: May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted;
and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the
Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons,
in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the
Treasury may fix upon Ground, contract
for erecting Penitentiary Houses, appoint Feoffees to treat for the Ground, etc.
same, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Lord High
Treasurer, or Commissioners of the Treasury for the Time being, and he
and they is or are hereby required, as soon after the passing of this Act as
conveniently may be, to fix upon the said Piece or Pieces of Ground
herein-before described, or upon any other as convenient and proper Spot
of Ground, which may be lawfully purchased under the Powers of this
Act, and which shall be situated within any of the respective Counties in
the said Act mentioned, upon which shall be erected One or more Penitentiary
House or Houses, for the Purpose of confining and employing in
Hard Labour such Convicts as shall be removed thither by Order of His
Majesty, his Heirs or Successors, under the Powers herein-mentioned ;
and to contract and agree with any Person or Persons for the erecting and
building One or more Penitentiary House or Houses on the said Piece or
Pieces of Ground before described, or upon such other Piece of Ground
as shall be appropriated for that Purpose, in such Manner, and under
and for such Considerations, Terms, Conditions, Powers, Limitations,
and restrictions, as the said Lord High Treasurer, or Commissioners of
the Treasury, shall deem necessary and expedient; and that cause to be
inserted in such Contract or Contracts such as Clauses, Covenants,
and Agreements, as shall be requisite to enforce the Execution of the
same accordingly, and within a Time to be herein limited ; and may
also, if he or they shall think it fit, appoint a proper Person or Persons to
superintend the Erection of such House or Houses, and the due Performance
of such Contract or Contracts as shall be entered into touching
the same, with such Powers as the said Lord High Treasurer, or Commissioners
of the Treasury, shall judge proper : and the said Lord High
Treasurer, or Commissioners of the Treasury, shall also appoint a Feoffee
or Feoffees to treat for the absolute Purchase in Fee Simple, and to accept
a Conveyance of such Piece or Pieces of Ground whereon the said
Penitentiary House or House shall be intended to be built, and from Time
to Time, to appoint others in the Stead of those who shall die or resign ;
and that when and so soon as such Piece or Pieces of Ground shall be fixed
upon and approved by the said Lord High Treasures, or Commissioners of
the Treasury, and such Feoffee or Feofees shall be appointed, the Inheritance
in Fee Simple of such Piece or Pieces of Ground, with the Appurtenances,
shall be vested in, and shall be conveyed and assured to
such Feoffee or Feoffees, to the Use of such Feoffee or Feoffees, and his
Feoffees to be a Corporation, etc.
or their Successors for ever ; and the said Feoffee or Feoffees for the
Time being is and are hereby made and declared to be a Corporation
Sole, or a Corporation Aggregate, as the Case shall happen to be, for
the special Purpose of being capable to take and hold in perpetual Succession
such Piece or Pieces of Ground, with all Buildings and Erections
thereon, and other the Appurtenainces thereunto belonging, or to belong,
for the Use and Purposes of this Act ; and shall and may sue and
be sued by the Name of The Feoffee (or Feoffees) of the Penitentiary House
(or Penitentiary Houses) in the Parish of in the
County of [as the Case may be], he or they paying to the
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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 |
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annotated by bentham; see note 10 to letter 1494, vol. 6, of which this is the original annotated copy of the act |
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