JB/117/092/004

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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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