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XI
Escape.

1
Punishment for Escape, attempts
& preparations, with and without
force —

2
So for unlawful liberation
mala fide —

3
So for destruction of essential
endamagement etc. with a view to
escape —

4
— for permitting Escape through
negligence —

5
— for a Watchman deserting
or being asleep or drunk on his
station —

6
— for Escape etc. on the part of a
Prisoner for Life —

7
King's Bench may make rules
declaratory of acts tending to escape —

8
— and of Acts promotive of escape —

9
Punishment for unlawful
absentation from Metasylum Service —

10
— for accessoryship thereto —

11
—for desertions from the Metasylum

12
— for accessoryship thereto —

13
— besides indemnification money
for subsequent felonies committed
by the Deserter —

14
Persons marked, not having
proper certificates, committable
as fugitives or Deserters —

15
Spare copies, against accidents,
to be lodged in proper hands —

16
Quondam Prisoner, assuming
a false name, to suffer as for
desertion — Sect. XII, 9-11

17
— and accessories accordingly —

18
Quondam Prisoner, charged
with escape or desertion, to be
conveyed to the Penitentiary
House —

19
— as felons, or as Vagrants
are, by a Special Constable
for the journey —

20
— at Governor's expence

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XI
Escape.

21
— So, if charged with any other
offence, if arrested in the County
where the Penitentiary House is —

22
— or if in any other County, if
such Conveyance will not
encrease the expence of Trial or
the Governor undertakes for it —

23
Trial at the Sessions —

24
— unless otherwise ordered
by the King's Bench —

25
Person, erroneously brought as
a fugitive or deserter, dischargeable
instanter

26
Anyone compellable to show
whether he is marked —

27
Penalty for rash or malicious
compulsion —

28
Instances

29
Offences here made felonies to
be treated as such in respect
of procedure —

30
— but not in respect of
punishment —

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Form
G.
Examples of Rules Declaratory
of Escapes, etc.

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XII. Felony Indemnification
Money.

1
List of Penitentiary Prisoners
received to be transmitted to every
Felony Court —

2
— to be continued every Session
by Supplemental Lists —

3
So, of Prisoners discharged,
with the maximum payable for
each —

4
— wherefrom a Table of
Penitentiary Admissions and
Discharges to be kept by each
court —

5
Lists to be accompanied by
blank receipts to be filled up &
returned by Post

6
Such Transmission &
Acknowledgement to be enforced
by each Court —

7
Damage, from the felony of
a Prisoner marked, to be found
and recorded —

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XII
Felony Indemnification
Money.

8
Indemnification-money, how to
be drawn for upon the Governor,
and upon occasion advanced —

9
Prisoner, having assumed a
false name, may be proceeded
against ex-nomine —

10
Examining Magistrate to give
information when a Prisoner
is found with a mark —

11
— and in case of assumption
of a false name, to proceed
against him ex-nomine —

12
Disputes between Governor &
payee of an Indemnification
Draught determinable
summarily by King's Bench —

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Forms
H. 1.
Draught for Indemnification
Money

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XIII Prisoners' Settlements.

1
Parish to include districts &
individuals chargeable —

2
Settlement not to be gained by
Metasylum Service —

3
To ascertain in time the
Settlements of Penitentiary
Prisoners' families, Justices may
be deputed by Sessions to take
Examinations in the
Penitentiary House —

4
Perjury therein, if detected
instanter, punishable with whipping
instanter. —

5
— So, the not answering —

6
Adjudication thereon may be 1.
peremptory —

7
— or provisional, indicating
further evidence —

8
Quadruplicates to be made, for
1. The Parish charged —
2. Sessions of the County where
the Parish lies —
3. Sessions deputing —
4. Governor —

9
Adjudication conclusive,
unless proceeded against within
3 Months —

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