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3 Panopticon Bill.Settlement.

3
To ascertain in time the Settlements
of Penitentiary Prisoners' families,
Justices may be deputed by Sessions
to take Examinations in the
Penitentiary House

Art. 3. And Whereas when the said intended Metasylum comes to be
open for the reception of discharged Penitentiary Prisoners it may chance that divers
of them will have been already married and have families of which all or some
of the numbers may be incapable of maintaining themselves in respect of the
maintenance of which families the respective heads thereof when engaged in the said
Metasylum may either through inability or perverseness prove more or less deficient
And Whereas on the opening of the said Establishment or afterwards the chargeable
members of such families although till then maintained in different parts of
England in and by their respective Parishes may and for the sake of living with their
respective Husbands & Parents naturally will be disposed to remove themselves to or
to the neighbourhood of such Establishment whereby sooner or later a heavy
charge may unless timely measures be taken for the obviating the same be
brought upon the Parish in which such establishment will have come to be situated
And Whereas doubts might arise whether under such circumstances such
chargeable members could be removed from the Parish where the respective heads
of such families were lawfully retained And Whereas although it were clear
that by the law as it stands at present such removal might be made, the
separation of Wives from husbands and of young children from parents would be
a measure of hardship and such a continuance of affective punishment beyond the
appointed time thereof as ought not to be imposed so long as the necessity thereof can
by any convenient means be spared And Whereas such of the said Metasylum
men as at the time of the opening the same are in a single state may
moreover during their continuance therein marry and have families And Whereas
among such of the Metasylum women as there are or afterwards become single it may
chance that some may be delivered of Bastard Children of which their putative
fathers may be undiscoverable or otherwise incapable of being made to bear the
charge of the maintenance of such Bastards And Whereas of the number of
such Metasylum men & women there may be divers who being Scotch, Irish, or
foreigners have no Settlement or whose place of Settlement can not be ascertained
And Whereas the said intended Governor in consideration of the circumstances
in this behalf of the Parish where his said Metasylum may come to
be situated and in order not to be an instrument of bringing so heavy a burthen
upon the same is ready and hath offered to join in any measure for
the

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