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18 Feby 31 Mar. 1802 O (F) 15
§.8 Observations on the Duke's dispensing power

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The act contains
all the ingredients
of criminality

1. Act requiring
Panopticon to be
built
2. Panopticon unbuilt
3. The Duke &c
stopping it
4. Sending elsewhere
prisoners that should
be sent there
5. setting up a
law of his own
6. calling it in
mockery a
law of Parliament
7. knowing that
there is nothing
in the law of Parliament
to warrant
it

In a word here are all the ingredients which
a man whose object it was to make up a dose mass
of punishable guilt could wish to put into it.
There is 1 the Act which requires Penitentiary
Houses to be built: — 2 there are the Penitentiary
Houses remaining unbuilt — waiting like the Shades Glasses seen by
those whom in the to come into existence.
3 There is the Duk Secretary of State, who instead
of lending his hand to the execution of the
Act, and to the building of these Houses — makes
turns more than a deaf ear to the questions put to him
about the building answers no questions about
them — stops the building of them — 4. keeping
in places not designed for them by Parliament
the Convicts that ought to have been in these Houses:
5 then is the same Secretary of State
who not content with disobeying the
Acts and doing what he pleases with them —
6 writes a letter as if for the pleasure of disobeying
them — 7 pretending to have as if it were
in mockery, to have read these Acts and f
pretending to find in them what if he has read
them he knows to a certainty is not there: setting up a
law of his own head — and saying as it
were in derision — this such is the law of
Parliament. If this be not an assumption of
legislative
dispensing

Identifier: | JB/121/431/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 121.
Date_1	1802-02-18	Marginal Summary Numbering	16
Box	121	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	431	Info in main headings field	Observations on the Duke's dispensing power
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering	F23
Penner		Watermarks	1800
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public	[[notes_public::Modify [note in Bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	001
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