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National Penitentiary Houses Cap. 74. Georgii III. Regis. 1403

and may prefer
an Indictment
against
him at the
next Quarter
Sessions.
or their Stead; and if the said Committee shall see fit,
they shall cause an Indictment or Indictments to be preferred
against the Officer or Officers, Servant or Servants,
so offending, at the next Quarter or other General
Session of the Peace to be holden for the County,
Riding, Liberty, Division, City, Corporation, or Place,
wherein such Penitentiary House shall be situated, or for
any other adjoining County; and in case such Person
or Persons so indicted shall be found guilty of such Offence
or Offences, he, she, or they shall be punished by
Fine and Imprisonment, or either of them, at the Discretion
of the Court.

Committee to
certify to the
Court of King's
Bench when
the Penitentiary
Houses are
fitted for Reception
of Offenders;
Transportation
consignets
to Penitentiary
Houses
24 And be it further enacted, That when the Penitentiary
Houses herein-before directed to be built, shall be
fitted and completed for the Reception of Offenders, and
proper Officers shall be appointed for the care and Management
thereof, the said Committee shall certify, under
their Hands and Seals, to the Justices of the Court
of King's Bench, that such Houses are so fitted and and completed,
and that such Officers have been appointed, and
after the making of such Certificate, where any Person
after which, a
limited number
of Persons
convicted, at
any Session of
Dyer and Terminer,
&c. in
England or
Wales, of any
crime punishable
by Transportation,
may
be sent to and
confined in
such Houses. shall, at any Session of Dyer and Terminer, or Gaol
Delivery, to be holden for the County of the City of
London, or the County of Middlesex, or during the Assizes
for any other County within that Part of Great
Britain called England, or at any Great Session to be
holden for the County Palatine of Chester, or within the
Principality of Wales, be lawfully convicted of Grand
or Petty Larceny, or any other Crime for which he or
she shall be liable by Law, either under this Statute or
any other Statute now in Force, or hereafter to be made,
to be transported to any Parts beyond the Seas, it shall
be lawful for the Court before which any such Person
shall be so convicted, or any Court held for the same
Place with like Authority, if such Court shall think fit,
in the Place of such Punishment by Transportation, to
order and adjudge that such Person shall be punished, by
being imprisoned and kept to Hard Labour, in One of
such Penitentiary Houses, for any Term not exceeding
The respective
Terms of Confinement.
Two Years, in case of Petty Larceny; and for any
Term,

Identifier: | JB/116/650/021"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	021	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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