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Panopticon Bill. Sect. II. Contract
Sect. II intitled Contract
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Lords of the Treasury may
contract for the institution of a
Panopticon Establishment — Art. 1. The Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, or any two of them, may, at any time or
times, enter into a Contract or Contracts with the said Jeremy Bentham or with the said
Samuel Bentham or after the decease of the Survivor of them with any person or persons
whatsoever, for the setting on foot and carrying on for any term or terms a Penitentiary Establishment
for the keeping, maintaining, and employing any number of Prisoners in a building or buildings
constructed on the principle herein above-mentioned.
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Obligations to be included in the
Contract— Art. 2. In such Contract provision shall be made for proper diet, cloathing, separate bedding &
Medicine for the Penitentiary Prisoners: for the assistance of a proper Chaplain & Surgeon constantly
resident on the spot: for allowing to each Prisoner a proper proportion of his earnings: for the setting
apart a proportion thereof for a provision for Old Age: for the securing a sufficient maintenance & employment
during Life to every able bodied Prisoner at the expiration of his term: as also a sufficient
maintenance for every such discharged Prisoner who through infirmity or old age shall be incapable of
labour, to the exoneration of their respective Parishes: for the better ensuring the attention of the Governor
to the health of the Prisoners by an obligation of paying head-money in consideration of an adequate
allowance for such as shall have died under his care; and for the better ensuring his attention to the
reformatory efficacy of his management, by an engagement to pay a penal sum, under the name of
indemnification-money, in case of any subsequent felony committed by any such Prisoner after his discharge.
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Nomenclature— Art. 3. For legal certainty and for the saving of Repetitions Be it enacted that
such Penitentiary Establishment shall be called the General Panopticon Penitentiary
Establishment or Penitentiary House; the Spot on which the same shall have been built,
Panopticon Hill; and person so contracted with, Governor of the said Establishment: any person
or persons next in authority to such Governor and for that purpose under his hand and Seal
appointed, Sub Governor or Governors or Deputy Governor or Governors thereof: the Prisoners
thereunto belonging, Penitentiary Men or Women; the term for which any such Prisoner
stands committed, his Term or Penitentiary Term: any offence committed by him after his
discharge from thence, a Post-liberation Offence: any provision made for him in the shape of an
Amnesty to commence at an advanced period of life, his Superannuation Annuity: and any subsidiary
Establishment for the affording employment to such Prisoners upon the expiration of their Terms,
A Metasylum.
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Governor a Corporation Sole —
Art. 4. The Governor for the time being shall be a Corporation Sole: and as such
capable of purchasing Hereditaments in succession: and of suing and being sued by that
description and not by name.
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