JB/124/067/001

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And whereas all manner of crimes might
be with impunity be a committed and injuries with assurance
inflicted of impunity by and upon against the members of the said Prisoners as well in
the Metasylum as any where elsewhere if their testimony were known to be inadmissible [And whereas the single examination of a Pauper
is the ordinary mode of ascertaining the settlement
of such Pauper and his family and is frequently in many instances the only mode practicable And whereas upon the
reception of a Prisoner into the Penitentiary House
there may be occasion to a necessity of ascertaining the settlement
of his family for the purposes herein after mentioned] And Whereas
the testimony of any felon convict when who has been stigmatised
by burning was him is held to be admissible And
Whereas before conviction of felony the evidence
of known and declared accomplices in the same is constantly
admitted Be it enacted that upon the reception
of any felon or other convict into the Panopticon
Penitentiary House and for ever aforesaid his
testimony shall in all cases be held to be competent
and admissible (saving such observations with
regard to his credibility as the particular circumstances
of his offence and character may warrant)
any law or rule or notion of law to the contrary
notwithstanding.

Identifier: | JB/124/067/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 124.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	16
Box	124	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	067	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d11 / d12
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	41756
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