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" the removal of Prisoners in certain cases and for other
" purposes therein mentionedr Power is given to His Majesty
to direct the removal of any Male Offender under Sentence
of Death but reprieved during pleasure and or under Sentence
Correction or Amendment
or in the Act §. 6
of Transportation and appearing in manner therein
mentioned fit to be removed to such place of Confinement
within England and Wales as His Majesty shall
appoint under the Management of any Overseer appointed
by His Majesty whereupon it is therein moreover provided
that every Offender so removed shall continue in the place
of Confinement or be removed to or and confined in any other
Correction or Amendment
and in the Act §. 6.
place as His Majesty shall appoint until such Offender
shall be Transported or by the expiration of his Term shall
be intitled to his Liberty or until His Majesty shall
direct the return of such Offender to the Gaol from
which he shall have been removed — And it is by such
Act also provided that after the removal of any Offender
under the same such Overseer shall during the Term ^
Correction
^ of such custody in
the Act, §. 8.
have the Powers incident to the Office of Sheriff or
Gaoler, and be answerable for any escape of such Offender,
and also during such Custody shall feed and Cloath
such Offender and shall keep him to Labour at such places
and under such direction as His Majesty shall by order
directed to such Overseer appoint.

Now it is hereby further Agreed, that that in pursuance
of the said first hereinbefore recited Act of the 7th Day of July
1794 that the said Lords Commissioners or their Successors shall
humbly recommend to His Majesty that he will be
graciously pleased to appoint the said Jeremy
Bentham to be Governor of the said Penitentiary House or

Identifier: | JB/118/220/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	220	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	39274
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