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3 Panopticon Bill Contract Sect. II intitled Contract.

1
Lords of the Treasury may
contract for the institution of a
Panopticon Penitentiary
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.

2
Obligations to be included in the
Contract —
<p>Art. 2. In such Contract provision shall be made for proper diet, cloathing, separate
bedding and Medicine for the Penitentiary Prisoners: for the assistance of a proper Chaplain and
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.

3
Nomenclature —

Art. 3. For legal certainty and for the saving of reputations, 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; any 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 annuity to commence at an advanced period of live,
his Superannuation Annuity: and any subsisting Establishment for the affording
employment to such Prisoners upon the expiration of their Terms, A Metasylum.

Art. 4




Identifier: | JB/119/141/003
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1-4, 1-8, 1

Box

119

Main Headings

panopticon

Folio number

141

Info in main headings field

panopticon bill

Image

003

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

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

d1 / d2 / d3 / d4

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Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

39652

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