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ANNO REGNI TRICESIMO QUARTO Cap. 84
particular Purpose of confining transportable and other Convicts within
the fame: May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted ;
and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the
Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Com
mons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the
fame, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Lord High
Treasurer, or Commissioners of the Treasury for the Time being, and he
and they is or are hereby required, as soon after the passing of this Act as
conveniently may be, to fix upon the said Piece or Pieces of Ground
herein-before described, or upon any other as convenient and proper Spot
of Ground, which may be lawfully purchased under the Powers of this
Act, and which shall be situated within any of the respective Counties in
the said Act mentioned, upon which shall be erected One or more Peni-
tentiary House or Houses, for the Purpose of confining and employing in
Hard Labour such Convicts as shall be removed thither by Order of His
Majesty, his Heirs or Successors, under the Powers herein-mentioned ;
and to contract and agree with any Person or Persons for the erecting and
building One or more Penitentiary House or Houses on the said Piece to
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sheet extracted from the penitentiary contract act 34 g.3.c.84 § 6 as referred to in a letter from mr bentham to mr secretary long dated 31st january 1800 |
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annotated by bentham; see note 10 to letter 1494, vol. 6, of which this is the original annotated copy of the act |
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