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1406 ANNO REGNI DECIMO NONO Cap.74. rity, if such Court shall think fit, in the Place of such
Punishment by Transportation, to order and adjudge
that such Person, appearing to be of competent Age,
and free from any bodily Infirmity, shall be punished by
being kept on Board Ships or Vessels properly accom—
modated for the Security, Employment, and Health of
the Persons to be confined therein, and by being em—
ployed in Hard Labour in the raising Sand, Soil, and
Gravel from, and cleansing, the River Thames, or any
other River navigable for Ships of Burthen, or any
Port, Harbour, or Haven, within that Part of Great
Britain called England, such River, Port, Harbour, or
Haven, being previously approved and appointed for that
Purpose by Order of His Majesty in his Privy Council
or in any other Service for the Benefit of the Naviga—
tion of the said Rivers, Ports, Harbours, or Havens, or
in any other publick Works upon the Banks or Shores
of the same, under the Management and Direction of
such Superintendant or Superintendants as hath been
or shall be appointed, for the River Thames, by the Jus—
tices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex, and for
other Rivers, Ports, Harbours, or Havens, by the Jus—
tices of the Peace for the Counties wherein such Rivers,
Ports, Harbours, or Havens, are situated, or of such
of the Counties next adjoining to the same, respectively,
as His Majesty in Council shall direct, at their Quarter
or other General Session of the Peace, for such Term
not less than One Year, nor exceeding five years, or
in case such Offender shall be liable to be transported for
fourteen years, not exceeding Seven Years, as such
Court of Dyer and Terminer, or Gaol Delivery, shall
think fit to order and adjudge.
In case His Majesty should extend His Mercy to any Person convicted of any Felony punishable by Death, the Judge shall order the Offender to be kept to Hard Labour in a Penitentiary 28 And be it further enacted, That where any Person
shall, at any Session of Dyer and Terminer, or Gaol
Delivery, or Great Session, within England or Wales,
be lawfully convicted of any Robbery, or other felony,
for which he or she shall by Law, either under this Sta—
tute, or under any other Statute now in force, or here—
after to be made, be liable to suffer Death, without Be—
nefit of Clergy, and His Majesty shall be graciously
pleased

Identifier: | JB/116/650/024"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1779	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	650	Info in main headings field
Image	024	Titles
Category	printed material	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	(1387-1428)
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	enclosed within a wrapper and annotated by bentham	ID Number	38183
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