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BILL,
INTITULED
An Act for erecting a Penitentiary House or
Houses for confining and employing Convicts.

WHEREAS by an Act, made in the
Nineteenth Year of the Reign of His
Present Majesty, intituled, An Act to
explain and amend the Laws relating to
the Transportation, Imprisonment, and
other Punishment of certain Offenders,
His Majesty is enabled to appoint Supervisors
for building Two Penitentiary Houses for confining
and employing in Hard Labour, such Persons convicted of
transportable Crimes within England or Wales, as are therein
mentioned, which Supervisors should fix upon any
Piece or Pieces of Ground which might be lawfully purchased
under the Powers of the said Act, and the same being
approved of, to contract for the absolute Purchase, in Fee
Simple, of the Piece or Pieces of Ground for the Purpose of

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Identifier: | JB/123/263/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 123.
Date_1	1794-06-06	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	123	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	263	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	printed material	Number of Pages	15
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	1-14
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::m gresham [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	41689
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