JB/119/311/001

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Panopticon Bill. XV Personal Clauses Sect. XV intitled Personal Clauses

Art. 1. And Whereas in the view of contributing
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Power to the inventor
to sue out a Patent for
the Panopticon
Invention, notwithstanding
communications
& imitations --
as far as may be to the improvement of the
construction and management of Prisons the said
Jeremy Bentham with the allowance of the said
Samuel Bentham hath without fee or reward at
divers times as well of his own motion as at the
request of divers persons communicated the said
invention of a Panopticon together with Books and
graphical Plans explanatory thereof, which said
invention hath accordingly in divers instances been
in divers respects adopted & carried into execution
And Whereas the building proposed to be erected
by the said Jeremy Bentham in pursuance
of this Act is intended to serve as an experiment &
to afford to the public a practical demonstration or
indication of the most economical & advantageous
mode of constructing prisons, manufactories or other
edifices upon the said principle And Whereas
from the nature of the said invention experiments
calculated for the exhibiting & improving the
result thereof could not as in the case of other
inventions of a mechanical nature be made with
out

Identifier: | JB/119/311/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 119.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1
Box	119	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	311	Info in main headings field	panopticon bill
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / d2 / d3 / d4
Penner		Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	39822
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