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Panopticon Bill Contents II
XI
Escape.
1
Punishment for Escape, attempts
& preparations, with and without
force —
2
So for unlawful liberation
malâ
fide —
3
So for destruction or essential
endamagement &c. with a view to
escape —
4
— for permitting Escape through
negligence —
5
— for a Watchman deserting
or being asleep or drunk on his
station —
6
— for Escape etc. on the part of a
Prisoner for Life —
7
King's Bench may make rules
declaratory of acts tending to escape —
8
— and of Acts promotive of escape —
9
Punishment for unlawful
absentation from Metasylum Service —
10
— for accessoryship thereto —
11
—for desertions from the Metasylum
12
— for accessoryship thereto —
13
— besides indemnification money
for subsequent felonies committed
by the Deserter —
14
Persons marked, not having
proper certificates, committable
as fugitives or Deserters —
15
Spare copies, against accidents,
to be lodged in proper hands —
16
Quondam Prisoner, assuming
a false name, to suffer as for
desertion — Sect. XII, 9-11
17
— and accessories accordingly —
18
>Quondam Prisoner, charged
with escape or desertion, to be
conveyed to the Penitentiary
House —
19
— as felons, or as Vagrants
are, or by a Special Constable
for the journey —
20
— at Governor's expence
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XI
Escape.
21
— So, if charged with any other
offence, if arrested in the County
where the Penitentiary House is —
22
— or if in any other County, if
such Conveyance will not
encrease the expence of Trial or
the Governor undertakes for it —
23
Trial at the Sessions —
24
— unless otherwise ordered
by the King's Bench —
25
Person, erroneously brought as
a fugitive or deserter, dischargeable
instanter
26
Anyone compellable to shew
whether he is marked —
27
Penalty for rash or malicious
compulsion —
28
Instances
29
Offences here made felonies to
be treated as such in respect
of procedure —
30
— but not in respect of
punishment —
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Form
G.
Examples of Rules Declaratory
of Escapes, &c.
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XII. Felony Indemnification
Money.
1
List of Penitentiary Prisoners
received to be transmitted to every
Felony Court —
2
— to be continued every Session
by Supplemental Lists —
3
So, of Prisoners discharged,
with the maximum payable for
each —
4
— wherefrom a Table of
Penitentiary Admissions and
Discharges to be kept by each
court —
5
Lists to be accompanied by
blank receipts to be filled up &
returned by Post
6
Such Transmission &
Acknowledgement to be enforced
by each Court —
7
Damage, from the felony of
a Prisoner marked, to be found
and recorded —
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XII
Felony Indemnification
Money.
8
Indemnification-money, how to
be drawn for upon the Governor,
and upon occasion advanced —
9
Prisoner, having assumed a
false name, may be proceeded
against ex-nomine —
10
Examining Magistrate to give
information when a Prisoner
is found with a mark —
11
— and in case of assumption
of a false name, to proceed
against him co-nomine —
12
Disputes between Governor &
payee of an Indemnification
Draught determinable
summarily by King's Bench —
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Forms
H. 1.
Draught for Indemnification
Money
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XIII Prisoners' Settlements.
1
Parish to include districts &
individuals chargeable —
2
Settlement not to be gained by
Metasylum Service —
3
To ascertain in time the
Settlements of Penitentiary
Prisoners' families, Justices may
be deputed by Sessions to take
Examinations in the
Penitentiary House —
4
Perjury therein, if detected
instanter, punishable with whipping
instanter. —
5
— So, the not answering —
6
Adjudication thereon may be 1.
peremptory —
7
— or provisional, indicating
further evidence —
8
Quadruplicates to be made, for
1. The Parish charged —
2. Sessions of the County where
the Parish lies —
3. Sessions deputing —
4. Governor —
9
Adjudication conclusive,
unless proceeded against within
3 Months —
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10
Parish charged may petition
Sessions for any County where
a Witness lives, to depute a
Justice to take supplemented
examination —
11
Sessions to depute a
neighbouring Justice accordingly
12
Examination to be transmitted
to the Parish so petitioning —
13
Parish to transmitt Copies.
1. to Governor —
2. to Sessions of the County
where the Penitentiary House is
14
— declaring thereupon either
1. Acquiescence under the
Adjudication —
2. Appeal — or
3. Procedure for further
examination
15
Appeal to be to the next
Sessions of the County where
the Penitentiary House is
unless put off —
16
After further examination,
Appeal to be to the next
Sessions or next but one, unless
time given by King's Bench —
17
Sessions to receive no evidence
in the first instance but the
written examinations —.
18
But if not satisfied therewith
may engage the parties
to join in a trial with the
benefit of
1. Vivâ voce evidence from
all parts of England —
2 — failing that, further
examinations —
3 — proper admissions & permissions —
4 — production of papers on Oath
19
Appeal thence to King's Bench
20
If in the course of the evidence
a second place of Settlement
appears, proceedings to be
between the two Places —
21
For Perjury apparent in the
course of the Appeal, prosecution
may be ordered, at the
expence, in the first instance,
of the party grieved, reimbursable
by the proper County
22
Penitentiary-man indicted &
convicted thereon, punishable
with whipping or prolongation
of his term —
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23
Governor may also proceed
for supplemental evidence
and either originally —
24
— or to encounter evidence
obtained by a Parish —
25
Parish, having maintained
Penitentiary Mans family
during his term, chargeable
afterwards as towards the
Governor —
26
Governor to maintain quondam
Penitentiary men for ever —
27
— So the wives if unsettlemented —
28
— and every unsettlemented
Child —
29
The Father's Parish, or
failing that the Mother's,
charged with the eventual
maintenance of Families
(existing & future) of
Penitentiary Prisoners —
30
A Justice may make an Order
for stoppage out of a Metasylum
man's pay for maintenance
of his family —
31
— So in the case of a
Superannuation-Annuitant —
32
— and if such stoppage be
insufficient, make an Order
of Assessment for supplemental
allowance —
33
Quadruplicates of such Order —
viz: for
1. Penitentiary House —
2. Metasylum —
3. Parish charged —
4. Sessions for County
where Metasylum is —
34
Governor's advance thereon
to be liquidated quarterly,
allowed by Order of a Justice
and paid by Parish (with
interest) within a month
after notice —
35
Appeal from Order of
Assessment and Order of
Allowance together, to Sessions
of County where Metasylum is —
36
Intermediate variation in the
quantum of the burthen, to
be allowed for —
37
Rate & Distress for
supplemental allowance money.
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