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53<lb/><head>Panopticon Bill.</head><note>Escape</note><p>although such offences were to be of a higher order<lb/>than simple felony as well in respect of punishment<lb/>as of guilt, Be it enacted that the<lb/>several offences in this present Act made felony<lb/>shall to the several purposes of Hue and Cry,<lb/>Arrest, Examination, Bail, Committment, and<lb/>all other stops that may in the course of procedure<lb/>be taken with respect to felonies be dealt with in<lb/>the manner of felonies.</p><p>Art. 39. And Whereas prevention and not<lb/><note>39<lb/>- but not in respect of<lb/>punishment -</note><lb/>the production of fruitless misery is the object of<lb/>all just punishment And Whereas a mode of<lb/>punishment can not in the way of prevention<lb/>have any effect but in as far as the consequences<lb/>thereof are present to the mind And Whereas<lb/>no innocent person ought without inevitable<lb/>necessity to be involved in the punishment appointed<lb/>for the guilty And Whereas the penal<lb/>ingredients involved in a judgment of felony by<lb/>the dispensations of the Common Law are many of<lb/>them such as fall mostly or exclusively upon the<lb/>inn<add>o</add>cent most of them such as cannot <add>find</add> a subject-<lb/>-matter whereupon to operate but under some rare<lb/>concurrence of circumstances, & all of them incapable<lb/>of</p> | |||
53
Panopticon Bill.Escape
although such offences were to be of a higher order
than simple felony as well in respect of punishment
as of guilt, Be it enacted that the
several offences in this present Act made felony
shall to the several purposes of Hue and Cry,
Arrest, Examination, Bail, Committment, and
all other stops that may in the course of procedure
be taken with respect to felonies be dealt with in
the manner of felonies.
Art. 39. And Whereas prevention and not
39
- but not in respect of
punishment -
the production of fruitless misery is the object of
all just punishment And Whereas a mode of
punishment can not in the way of prevention
have any effect but in as far as the consequences
thereof are present to the mind And Whereas
no innocent person ought without inevitable
necessity to be involved in the punishment appointed
for the guilty And Whereas the penal
ingredients involved in a judgment of felony by
the dispensations of the Common Law are many of
them such as fall mostly or exclusively upon the
innocent most of them such as cannot find a subject-
-matter whereupon to operate but under some rare
concurrence of circumstances, & all of them incapable
of
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