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Panopticon Bill.
Post-liberation Options
Art. 12. After the opening of the said Metasylum, no Prisoner
shall be called upon more than one year before the expiration of his or her Term,
to make election as aforesaid.
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Prisoner's, to be called upon
for their election, a year before
hand —
Art. 13. And Whereas so long as any such quondam Prisoner
shall continue in the service either of his Majesty or the East India Company
as aforesaid such Prisoner will thereby be not only sufficiently provided
for, but remain under as strict a superintendence as he would have been
under at the Metasylum, And Whereas the conduct of such Prisoner will
thereby also be exempt from all superintendence as well on the part of the
said Governor as on the part of any person into whose character the said
Governor could have it in his power to scrutinize in the manner in which
he is hereby enabled to do into that of a Friendly Guardian Be it
enacted that during the continuance of any quondam Penitentiary Man
in the service either of his Majesty or of the said Company the Governor's
responsibility in respect of indemnification-money for Post-liberation offences
as aforesaid shall cease.
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During the engagement under
the Crown, or the Company,
Governor's Bondsmanship to
remain suspended —
Art. 14. Provided always that if, on the discharge of any such
quondam Prisoners as aforesaid from his Majesty's service, it should be his
Majesty's pleasure to consign over such discharged person to the Metasylum,
the Governor shall be bound to receive him thereinto, in which case the said
Governor's responsibility as aforesaid shall thereupon revive.
Art. 15.
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But to revive, on the King's
consigning his man over to the
Metasylum —
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