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Panopticon Bill
Escape.

Art. 5. For permitting an escape through negligence
5
for permitting escape
through negligence -

on the part of any person employed in
the management of the Prison, Fine, with or
without imprisonment in the same or elsewhere,
at the discretion of the Court.

Art. 6. For anyone who being employed as a
6
for a Watchman deserting
or being asleep
or drunk on his
station -

Guard or Watchman in or about the Prison shall
between Sunset & Sunrise desert his station or
walk, or be asleep or drunk therein, confinement
in the same on conviction before one Justice for
any term not greater than a year, or on conviction
by indictment, for life.

Art. 7. And Whereas a prisoner committed
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for escape etc on the
part of a prisoner for
life -

to the said Prison for life would thereby be incapable
of undergoing the punishment herein
appointed for other fugitives And Whereas
capital punishment (being the usual punishment
for disobedience to a sentence of transportation
for life) is in the present instance not
necessary, and in the case of a desperate and
abandoned Prisoner might operate as an incitement
to the offence, And Whereas if some
punishment capable of striking terror into any
man




Identifier: | JB/119/268/003
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 119.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

4-7

Box

119

Main Headings

panopticon

Folio number

268

Info in main headings field

panopticon bill

Image

003

Titles

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

d5 / d6 / d7 / d8

Penner

Watermarks

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

39779

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