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Panopticon Bill 3 Preamble

Chap. General. Panopticon — Penitentiary Act: or
an Act for the punishment and reformation of Felons, by means of a Penitentiary
House of
new invention, to
be stiled The General
Panopticon Penitentiary-House.

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Power for
choosing ground
given by
19. Geo. 3.ch. 34

Sect. 5. General Preamble.

Whereas by a Statute of the 19th Year
of the reign of his present Majesty + Ch. 74. it was
enacted that a proper spot or proper spots of
ground for the erection of a Penitentiary Houses + Ch. 74
for the confinement and employment of 600 Male
and 300 Female Convicts should be provided,
and such Houses thereon erected at the Public
expence charge: such ground (having been chosen by three
persons therein mentioned under the names of
Supervisors or any two of them and approved
by a Commission of Controul Body Board composed of the
Lord Chancellor, the Speaker of the House of
Commons, the Lord Mayor of the City of London,
and the twelve Judges or any eight of the said
fifteen persons) to be paid for (unless
otherwise agreed) according to the Verdict of a
Jury, and convey'd to the Clerk of the Home
Circuit for the time being to be holden by him
and his Successors as a Corporation Sole for the purposes therein mentioned,
and at any time thereafter on payment
made of such purchase-money in manner
therein mentioned to be entered on by the said
Supervisors their workmen or Agents for Supervisors
the purposes of the said Act:
And

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Box	124	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	037	Info in main headings field	panopticon bill
Image	001	Titles	[[titles::chap. [ ] general panopticon-penitentiary act: or an act for the punishment and reformation of felons, by means of a penitentiary house of new invention, to be stiled the general panopticon penitentiary-house]]
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