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competent as such Convict or Prisoner shall choose to eat, together with a competent compleat allowance
of Meat or Fish or Soups or other Messes made or compounded from or out of the
flesh of any such animals or of such parts of animals as are usually slaughtered
for human food which said allowance of Meat or such equivalent for the same as
aforesaid shall also be made in like manner without Stink to every Convict or
Prisoner who shall be employed in any kind of work or Labour and who shall
exert himself therein with ordinary diligence in the execution of the same: but in
case of Idleness or Misbehaviour in any such Convicts or Prisoners fir for Labour
the quantity of such Meat or succedaneum to Meat as well as the quality of both
sorts of Food for such Convicts or Prisoners who shall be Idle or misbehave as aforesaid
(the same being wholesome and sufficient for the immediate sustenance of such
Convicts or Prisoners respectively) shall be left to the Choice of the said Jeremy Bentham
and his Succesors who shall be Governor or Governors as aforesaid they
respectively acting therein with humanity and sound discretion.

Article 7.th
Each of the aforesaid Convicts and Prisoners shall be kept properly Cloathed:
and for that purpose shall be supplied once in every year at the least with a compleat
suit of Cloaths and with a Clean Shirt at least twice in every Week
at the expence of the said Jeremy Bentham, his Heirs Exors Admors or Assigns.

Article 8.th
Each of the aforesaid Convicts or Prisoners shall in like manner be constantly
supplied with a separate Bed and Bedding of sufficient warmth and
kept in a state of constant cleanliness clean Sheeting and Blanketing being
supplied for each such Bed at least once in every Month and all possible
attention shall be paid to the cleanliness of such Convicts or Prisoners in every
respect as far as circumstances will permit.

Article 9.th
The said Penitentiary House with the Buildings and Offices to belong
thereto shall at all proper Seasons and in every part thereof be sufficiently
warmed and lighted: and every proper precaution taken to prevent the same
from becoming infectious or unwholesome, and to preserve the Convicts and or
Prisoners confined therein in good Health.

Article 10th
None of such Convicts or Prisoners shall be suffered to have or be supplied
with any kind of Spiritous or fermented Liquors; except in such cases as the
same shall have been prescribed for them in the way of Medicine when Sick
or disordered.

Article 11.th
A Chaplain (being a Clergyman of the Church of England) shall
be provided at the expence of the said Jeremy Bentham his Heirs Executors
Administrators or Assigns, who in person or be his occasional and Sufficient
Deputy shall be constantly living in the midst of the said Convicts or Prisoners
and keeping the whole assemblage of them under his Eyes.

Article 12.th
So in like manner a Surgeon of competent Skill and experience shall be
provided

Identifier: | JB/107/178/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 107.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	107	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	178	Info in main headings field	panopticon contract
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	3
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f7 / f8
Penner		Watermarks	j whatman
Marginals		Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	35169
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