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Panopticon Bill. Preamble
Chap. General Panopticon Penitentiary Act: or an Act for the
punishment & reformation of Felons, by means of a Penitentiary House of new invention, to be
stiled The General Panopticon Penitentiary House.
Sect. I. General Preamble.
Power for choosing Ground
given by 19. Geo: 3: ch. 74
Art. 1. Whereas by a Statute of the 19th year of the reign of his present Majesty Ch.
74 it was enacted that a proper spot or proper spots of ground for the erection of Penitentiary
Houses for the confinement and employment of 600 Male and 300 Female Convicts should
be provided, and such Houses thereon erected at the Public charge: such Ground (having
been chosen by three persons therein mentioned under the name of Supervisors or any two of these
and approved by a Board composed of the Lord Chancellor, the Speaker of the House of Commons,
the Lord Mayor of the City of London, and the twelve Judges or any eight of the said
fifteen persons) to be paid for (unless otherwise agreed) according to the Verdict of a Jury, and
conveyed to the Clerk of the Home Circuit for the time being, to be holden by him and his
Successors as a Corporation Sole for the purposes therein mentioned, and at any time thereafter
on payment made of such purchase money in manner therein mentioned to be entered on by
the said Supervisors their Workmen or Agents for the purpose of the said Act —
Ground chosen
Art. 2. And Whereas, in pursuance of the said Act, a spot of Ground at
Battersea Rise, consisting of 80 Acres or thereabouts, of which the Fee Simple was and is in the
Archbishop of York in right of his See, and of which John late Earl Spencer then was, and George
John now Earl Spencer now is, Lessee for lives under the said See, having, after great consideration
and rejection of divers other situations, been, at an interval of upwards of two years from
the passing of the said Act, to wit on or about the 10th of June 1782, approved of by the said
Board as the properest spot for the said purpose, and as sufficient not only for that one of the
said intended Penitentiary Houses for which the same had originally been chosen, bid for both
such Penitentiary Houses, the price thereof was on the 10th day of Sept. 1792 duly assessed by
the Verdict of a Jury at £6,600; of which Verdict for the better ascertainment of the parcels of
the said Land a true Copy is exhibited by the Paper marked [A] in the Schedule hereunto
annexed —
Expences of purchasing Ground
and Building as per Estimates —
Art. 3. And Whereas Estimates of the expence of building such Penitentiary Houses
were on the 1st of July 1782 given in, according to the direction of the said Act, amounting in the
whole for the buildings and other Ground charges alone, to the sum of £210,352 for the said
number of 900 Prisoners, (being at the rate of £232,724 and upwards for the now intended
number of 1000 as herein after mentioned) exclusive of the charge of furnishing and stocking the said
then intended Establishment: which said Estimate having been objected to on account of the
magnitude of the expence, a reduced Estimate was given in on or about the 15th of March 1784 to
the amount of £165,287 for the said number of 900 Prisoners: (being at the rate of £183,652
and upwards for the said number of 1000, making, for land buildings and other Ground charges
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