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General Preamble.
Panopticon Bill.

Chap. General Panopticon Penitentiary
Act: or an Act for the punishment and reformation of
Felons, be means of a Penitentiary House of new invention,
to be stiled The General Panopticon Penitentiary
House.

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ground given by 19
Geo: 3. C. 74.—

Sect. I. General Preamble—

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 of proper spots of ground for
the erection of Penitentiary Houses for the confinement
and employment of 600 Male and 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 and approved by a
Board composed of the Lord Chancellor, the Speaker of
the House of Commons, the Lord Mayer 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 purposes of the said Act.



Identifier: | JB/119/192/001
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Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

1-2

Box

119

Main Headings

panopticon

Folio number

192

Info in main headings field

panopticon bill

Image

001

Titles

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

d1 / d2 / d3 / d4

Penner

Watermarks

i taylor

Marginals

Paper Producer

evan nepean

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

39703

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