JB/119/138/002

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Sec. I Preamble
Panopticon Bill

charges alone, upwards of £190,000, exclusive of the charges of furnishing and stocking as
aforesaid, of which no estimate was made:) but, on account of the doubts which still remained
respecting the propriety of subjecting the Public to so heavy a charge in the first instance, no
money hath yet been issued for the erection of such intended Buildings or for the purchase of
the said Ground —

Offer by Jeremy Bentham
Art 4. And Whereas Samuel Bentham of Queen's Square Place Westminster,
Knight of the Military Order of St George of Russia, and Brigadier General in the
service of her Imperial Majesty of all the Russias, hath after much Study and expence
invented a new species of Building stiled a Panopticon or Inspection-House by means
of which the behavior and condition of all persons therein without exception, and thence the
conduct of the Inspector and his Subordinates in the management thereof, may to all
proper persons and at all proper times be rendered apparent at one view: And Whereas
Jeremy Bentham of Lincoln's Inn Barrister at Law having with the allowance and
assistance of his Brother the said Samuel Bentham applied the principle of the said
Panopticon to the special purpose of an Edifice for the reception of Prisoners, and having by
means thereof devised a plan of management calculated for the carrying into execution in a
superior degree the good purposes by the Act aforesaid intended, in respect of Safe-custody,
Employment, Instruction, Reformation, and subsequent Maintenance after discharge,
hath offered at his own charge to purchase and pay for the said Ground, and thereon also at
his own charge to erect, fit up, furnish and stock a building or assemblage of buildings on the said
plan, sufficient for the confinement & employment of 1000 Prisoners or more in consideration of
an allowance, not greater for the first year than the allowance of late made, and for every other
year little more than half the allowance at present made for the maintenance of the same number
of Prisoners for the same time on board the Hulks; as also for the benefit of such
Prisoners to subject himself to divers other expensive obligations and strict duties herein after mentioned,
on the conditions herein also mentioned,

For the accomplishment of the said good purposes, May it therefore please your Majesty
that it be enacted, and by the Kings Majesty with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual
& Temporal and Commons in Parliament assembled Be it enacted as follows, viz:

Identifier: | JB/119/138/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 119.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-8
Box	119	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	138	Info in main headings field	panopticon bill
Image	002	Titles	[[titles::chap [ ] general panopticon penitentiary act: or an act for the punishment and reformation of felons, by means of a penitentiary house of new invention, to be stiled the general panopticon penitentiary house]]
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
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