JB/119/282/001

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Panopticon Bill.Escape

although such offences were to be of a higher order
than simple felony as well in respect of punishment
as of guilt, Be it enacted that the several
offences in this present Act made felony
shall to the several purposes of Hue and Cry,
Arrest, Examination, Bail, Committment, and
all other stops that may in the course of procedure
be taken with respect to felonies be dealt with in
the manner of felonies.

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- but not in respect of
punishment -

Art. 39. And Whereas prevention and not
the production of fruitless misery is the object of
all just punishment And Whereas a mode of
punishment can not in the way of prevention
have any effect but in as far as the consequences
thereof are present to the mind And Whereas
no innocent person ought without inevitable necessity
to be involved in the punishment appointed
for the guilty And Whereas the penal
ingredients involved in a judgment of felony by
the dispensations of the Common Law are many of
them such as fall mostly or exclusively upon the
innocent most of them such as cannot find a subject-
-matter whereupon to operate but under some rare concurrence
of circumstances, & all of them incapable
of

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	39
Box	119	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	282	Info in main headings field	panopticon bill
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d53 / d54 / d55 / d56
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