JB/119/153/001

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Panopticon Bill. Post-liberation Options.

Sect. VIII. intitled Post-liberation Options.

1.
Options to be given to Penitentiary
men on discharge: viz:
1. Metasylum
2. Wardship under Friendly
Guardian
3. King's Land Service
4. King's Sea Service
5. E. India Company Service

Art. 1. And Whereas it might frequently happened that a
Prisoner, though unprovided of all other honest means of livelyhood, might through
idleness or improvidence refuse upon his discharge the certain provision hereby
intended to be made for him, choosing rather to depend on common begging or
worse courses And Whereas of the number of such Prisoners it is but too
probably that a considerable proportion will be composed of such as untill committed
to the said Penitentiary House had never been engaged in any course of honest industry,
but on the contrary had been from their infancy trained up in habits of
dishonesty & dissipation And Whereas a mere temporary and precarious employment
by he day or week without any security for the continuance of the
same would not be sufficient to secure either the individual himself or the public
against the consequences that might result at any time from his relapse into
a state of idleness & indigence And Whereas a false appearance of such
employment might moreover be obtained by collusion with companions in idleness
or iniquity And Whereas by a Statute of the 17thyear of King
George the 2 all persons wandering abroad and lodging in Alehouses, Barns,
Outhouses, or in the open air, and not giving a good account of themselves, and
all other persons wandering about and begging are without other offence denominated
Rogues & Vagabonds and besides being repeatedly whipped made committable
for the first offence for a term which may amount to near nine months,
and may be afterwards forcibly inlisted in his Majesty's service by Sea or Land
without any option in respect of the same and may moreover for a second offence
be committed for two years and that to a Common House of Correction in
which no such means of employment or amendment are to be found And
Whereas by a Statute of the fifth year of Queen Elizabeth Ch.4.§.7 any person between
the ages of 12 and 60 under certain exceptions none of which are applicable
to the case of a discharged Penitentiary Prisoner may be compelled to
be retained to serve by the year provided it be in husbandry and that with
any

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