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or attending the providing additional Buildings and other sufficient Accommodations
for the reception of every such Supernumerary Prisoner; which the said
Jeremy Bentham or his Successors as aforesaid shall provide accordingly in like
manner as hereinbefore expressed with respect to the Buildings and Accommodations
for one thousand Convicts or Prisoners as aforesaid Provided that when such Amendment
two
additional sum of £ 18 shall have been once paid for any number of such Supernumerary Blank
Convicts or Prisoners no further Sum shall be payable in respect of any
Number of such Supernumerary Convicts or Prisoners which the said Jeremy
Bentham or his Successors shall be required to receive as aforesaid unless the total
Number of such Supernumeraries at any one time shall exceed the number of
Sums of £18 which shall have been paid for Supernumerary Convicts or Prisoners Blank
in which the case the further sum of £ 18 shall in like manner be paid for Blank
each of such Supernumerary Convicts or Prisoners which the said Jeremy
Bentham or his Successors shall be required to receive beyond the number already
paid for as aforesaid: (that is to say) if two hundred Supernumeraries shall
in the first place be committed to the charge of the said Jeremy Bentham
or his Successors and the number of such Supernumeraries shall afterwards be
reduced to 100 then the addition of £18 for any Supernumerary shall not Blank
be paid in respect of any further Supernumeraries which may successively
be added to the remaining number of 100, until, the number of Supernumerary
Convicts or Prisoners shall be so far augmented as to amount to more than 200
in the whole: In which case the Sum of £ 18 shall be paid for so many as Blank
exceed the number of 200 and so from time to time as long as these Articles shall
be in force.
Article 4th
And Whereas by an Act of Parliament made and passed in
the 24th Year of his present Majesty's Reign + and intitled "An Act for the ☞ Sess 2 Ch 56 repealing (§17)
Ch 12 § 1 of the same Year
which would not serve the present
purpose —
"effectual Transportation of Felons and other Offenders and to authorize the removal
"of Prisoners in certain Cases and for other purposes therein mentioned" Power is
given to His Majesty to direct the removal of any Male Offender under Sentence of
Death but reprieved during pleasure and under Sentence of Transportation and Correction or Amendment
or in the Act § 6
appearing in manner therein mentioned fit to be removed to such place of Confinement
within England and Wales as His Majesty shall appoint under the
management of any Overseer appointed by His Majesty whereupon it is therein
moreover provided that every Offender so removed shall continue in the place of
Confinement or be removed to or confined in any such other place as his Majesty Correction or amendment
and in the Act § 6
shall appoint until such Offender shall be Transported or by the expiration
of his Term shall be intitled to his Liberty or until His Majesty shall direct the
return of such Offender to the Gaol from which he shall have been removed
And it is by such Act also provided that after the removal of any Offender under
the same such Overseer shall during the Term ˄ have the power incident to the Office Correction
˄of such custody in the
Act § 8
of Sheriff or Gaoler and be answerable for any escape of such Offender and also
during
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