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Panopticon Bill XIIISettlement

Settlements Be it enacted that upon application made upon the part
of the Governor to the General Sessions of the Peace for the County in which the
Penitentiary House is situated the Justices in the said Sessions shall depute two or
more of themselves or their fellows who shall at any convenient time or times then
and there take the examinations of all such Penitentiary Prisoners as shall be presented
to them for that purpose touching their respective Settlements: as also of any
other persons dwelling within their jurisdiction whom they may think fit to examine
respecting the same: which said examinations shall be then and there committed
to writing and signed by the respective Examinants.

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Perjury therein, if detected
instanter, punishable with whipping
instantes --

Art. 4. And Whereas a Penitentiary Prisoner so examined
might through predeliction for some place not justly chargeable or through
malice to the inhabitants thereof or through other sinister motives be under
temptation to committ Perjury, And Whereas the ordinary punishment
for perjury being calculated for the condition of persons at large would be unsuitable
to that of a Penitentiary man and might have the effect of transferring him to some
other Prison not so well adapted to his situation as the said Penitentiary House &
require a mode of prosecution attended with such formalities expence, and delays as in
the present instance would not be necessary Be it enacted that any Penitentiary
Prisoner who in the course of such his or her examination shall be guilty of Perjury and
thereof be convicted in the Penitentiary House, may be punished with whipping at the
discretion of any two or more Justices: on which occasion such Justices who were present
at the taking of such examination are or at least some one of them is, hereby required
to attend: provided that no such proceeding shall for want of any such attendance
be void.

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-- so, the not answering --

Art. 5. Any Penitentiary Prisoner who on the occasion of such examination
shall wilfully forbear to make perfect answer to any fit question may be punished
with whipping till he comply at the discretion of the examining Justices.

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Adjudication thereon may be
1. peremptory --

Art. 6. Upon the completion of such examination as aforesaid, the Justices who
took the same shall if satisfied with respect to the Place of Settlement as aforesaid,
make an Order of adjudication declarative thereof: annexing to such order every such
examination or a true copy thereof by them attested so to be.

Art. 7.

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