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"the..... management.... of the same, and of all and
"every Offender and Offenders who shall be delivered into
"his or their Custody, by the direction of His Majesty.
"under such Powers, Direction, Limitations and restrictions
"as are contained in
" [the Act 25 Geo. 3. ch. 56.] "or under
"such other directions Limitations and restrictions as his
"Majesty shall under the Powers of the said Act, from
"time to time appoint." — Under this Clause therefore, His
Majesty, before the Permanent Penitentiary House is
Erected, may "appoint" me to be "Governor" thereof "when it
it shall be erected
— before it is erected he may cause
convicts to be "delivered into" my "custody" under "such
"Powers and directions
"..... "as, under the Powers of" the
such Act it may please him to appoint: and consequently
"under such directions" as are expressed by the several clauses
contained in the above Draught, as already settled in the
Law Offices. The professed object of that Act was to enable
Government to take advantage of any convenient place
or places of confinement, existing or which might thereafter
come to exist, placing Prisoners in one such place,
some in another, or even transferring the same Prisoners
from Place to Place, just as conveniences might be found:
and in the number of those Convenient Places will be
the proposed Temporary Penitentiary House, so soon as
it shall have been brought into existence. By the
terms of the Act (§.6.) His Majesty may...."direct the
"removal of any Make...Offenders under Sentence of
Death



Identifier: | JB/117/092/004
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

117

Main Headings

panopticon

Folio number

092

Info in main headings field

Image

004

Titles

Category

correspondence

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f9 / f10 / f11 / f12

Penner

Watermarks

tw 1794

Marginals

Paper Producer

francis hall

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1794

Notes public

copy of letter at 117-085 to 117-089; not sent; see note 2 to letter 1357, vol. 6

ID Number

38709

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