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Ao 1800. Panopt. J.B. v. D. of Portland.

competence: and yet after an Act of Parliament has
passed an Act for the express and declared purpose
of consigning to the prison in question the class
of untransportable convicts as well as the class
of transportable ones, it does seem something
like a stretch of authority—an assumption of
something very like legislative power to
later measures for the express purpose of
making the execution of this part of the intentions of the Act
physically impracticable: by. By this means the
Secretary of State for the time being, not only
content with pursuing his own notions of
what is expedient in this behalf which he
himself continues this in Office, ties up the
hands of his successors, and forces them
to pursue the same notions of expedience,
however opposite their own may be.

Observations.

If an Anonymous Libeller on a Paper
found on the Staircase between from the Treasury
Chambers and to the Secretary of State's Office, and
purporting to be a Broullion of a Letter
from the written in the last Century from a by a D. of P. to Mr Secretary Long
on the question of the number to be provided
for in or those professed to be—a supposed —intended but since laid aside Penitentiary House
is expressed to think it very inexpedient to move them from
the Country Gaols: unless the crowded state of these Gaols described
render it absolutely necessary. In this inclination as thus expressed
there is nothing indeed that bears directly on the truth of the letter
of the Law:

Identifier: | JB/119/118/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 119.
Date_1	1800	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	119	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	118a "a" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.	Info in main headings field	panopt. jb to d. of portland
Image	003	Titles	observations
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1798 am
Marginals		Paper Producer	frances wright
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1798
Notes public		ID Number	39629
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