JB/119/195/001

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Contract
Panopticon Bill.
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 his Representatives
[possessors of the Letters Patent herein after
spoken of or the persons hereby empowered to obtain
the same] 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 constructed on the
principle herein above mentioned.

2
Obligations to be included
in the Contract.

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 and 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

Identifier: | JB/119/195/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 119.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	119	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	195	Info in main headings field	panopticon bill
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Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
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