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1222 ANNO REGNI TRICESIMO QUARTO Cap. 84.

Transportable other Convicts
particular Purpose of confining transportable and other Convicts within
the same: 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 Commons,
in the present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the
same, that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Lord High
Treasury may fix upon Ground, contract for erecting Penitentiary Houses, appoint Feoffees to treat for the Ground, &c.
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 of Pieces of Ground
herein-before described, or upon any other 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 Penitentiary
House or Houses, for the Purpose of confining and employing in
such Convicts
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 or
Pieces of Ground before described, or upon such other Piece of Ground
as shall be appropriated for the Purpose, in such Manner, and under
and for such Considerations, Terms, Conditions, Powers, Limitations,
and Restrictions, as the said Lord High Treasurer, or Commissioners of
the Treasury, shall deem necessary and expedient; and shall cause to be
inserted in such Contract or Contracts such lawful Clauses, Covenants,
and Agreements, as shall be requisite to enforce the Execution of the
same accordingly, and within a Time to be therein limited; and may

Identifier: | JB/116/651/005"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1794-07-07	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	651	Info in main headings field
Image	005	Titles
Category	printed material	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	(1219-1228)
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	annotated by bentham	ID Number	38184
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