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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.
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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 & employment of 600 Male & 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 them &
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.
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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 & 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 18th 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, but 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 £6600; 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.
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Expences of purchasing Ground
and Building as per Estimate —
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
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