JB/124/037/004

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Offer by Jeremy
Bentham.

And whereas Jeremy Bentham of Lincoln's Inn
Barrister at Law and of Queen's Square Place
Westminster Esquire, having with the assistance of
Samuel Bentham of the same place Queen's Square Place Westminster Knight of
the Military Order of St George of Russia, and Brigadier-General
in the service of his Imperial Majesty
of all the Russias, having hath after much study and expence
invented a new species of building stiled
a Panopticon, whereby or Inspection House by means of which the behaviour
and condition of the Prisoners all persons therein without exception and thence
the conduct of the Keeper Inspector and his Subordinates in
the management thereof may to all proper persons
and at all proper times be rendered apparent at one
view [+] [+] And whereas Jeremy
Bentham having of
Lincoln's Inn Barrister
at Law having
with the allowance
and assistance of his
Brother the said Samuel
Bentham applied
the principle of the
said species of building
to Panopticon to the
special purpose of an
building edifice
for the reception of
Prisoners, and having
by means thereof
devised a plan of
management and having by means of the said mode
of construction devised a plan of management calculated
for the carrying into execution in a superior
degree the good purposes intended by the Act
aforesaid intended in respect of Safe-custody, Employment,
Instruction, Reformation, and subsequent Maintenance
after discharge, hath offered at his own
charge expence to pay for purchase and pay for
the said Ground, and thereon also at his own
charge expence to erect, fit up, furnish and stock a building
or assemblage of buildings on the said plan
sufficient for the confinement and employment
of 1000 Prisoners or more in consideration of an
allowance not great for the first year than the allowance
of late made [+] [+] and for every other
Year little more
than half the allowance
at present made for the same maintenance of
the same number of Prisoners for the same time on
board the Hulks, and for every other year and upon as also for the benefit of such Prisoners
the conditions herein after mentioned to subject himself to divers other expensive obligations:
and strict duties herein after mentioned: on the conditions
herein also mentioned:

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Identifier: | JB/124/037/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 124.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-4
Box	124	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	037	Info in main headings field	panopticon bill
Image	004	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]]
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / d2 / d3 / d4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	41726
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