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than repeal, was the object, appears from the reasons which
his Grace gives a little further on, after he has spoken speaking of
the second of the two classes of convicts - the untransportable
ones: for, these reasons are such as apply with equal force
and efficacy to the first class: and are plainly considered
as applying alike to both.

What then are the persons thus excepted by the Duke
out of the persons of this first class (transportable Convicts)
destined for the Penitentiary Establishment by Parliament ?
They are neither more nor fewer than all "such transportable
"Convicts as the several Gaols of the respective Counties "can "contain
"from the time of their receiving sentence till an opportunity
may offer for their being transported". All these persons
whom the Secretary of State is so determined to except,
Parliament without any exception authorizes the judicial authority
"the Court" in each case to consign in any number to
the Penitentiary House or Houses "to be evicted as soon as conveniently
"may be" requiring of course that same authority, to
consign them, either to that same establishment when instituted, or
at any rate to some one of the two other establishments (the
Transportation establishment or the Hulk establishment) already
instituted by Parliament for this class of Convicts: and by this
Act neither requiring, nor so much as authorizing the Court
or the Duke or any body to consign a single one of these
Convicts to any one of these his County Gaols. All these persons
the Duke, with this Act before his eyes, determines - declares
at least his determination - to consign to these County Gaols-
and not to suffer a single one of them to be consigned either
to the Penitentiary system, which, though Parliament had so long

Identifier: | JB/120/572/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 120.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	120	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	572	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10 / f11 / f12
Penner		Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	40398
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