JB/119/158/001

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15
The Company, on their man's
return after quitting their Service,
bound so to consign him, on pain
of unlimited Bondsmanship

Art.15. Provided also that on every such quondam Prisoner's
return to any part of Great Britain from the service of the East India
Company, the said Company shall be bound to consign him to the Metasylum as aforesaid: in default whereof they shall remain responsible for
the full indemnification-money for any post-liberation offence committed by
such discharged person after such his return in the same manner and degree
as any person accessory to the decision of a Metasylum-man from the
Metasylum is made responsible in that the respect in manner herein after
mentioned.

16
Competency restored to the testimony
of Penitentiary-men

Art.16. And Whereas all manner of crimes might be committed
with assurance of impunity by & against the said Prisoners as well in the
Metasylum as elsewhere if their testimony were known to be inadmissible
[And Whereas the single examination of a Pauper is the ordinary mode
of ascertaining the settlement of such Pauper and his family and is in many
instances the only mode practicable And Whereas upon the reception
a Prisoner into the Penitentiary House there may be a necessity of ascertaining
the settlement of his family for purposes herein after mentioned] And
Whereas the testimony of any felon convict who has been stigmatized by
burning is held to be admissible And Whereas before conviction of felony
the evidence of known and declared accomplices in the same is constantly
admitted Be it enacted that upon the reception of any felon or other
convict into the Panopticon Penitentiary House and for ever afterwards his
testimony shall in all cased be held to be competent & admissible (saving
such observations with regard to his credibility as the particular circumstances of
his offence and character may warrant) any law or rule or notion of law to the
contrary notwithstanding.

Identifier: | JB/119/158/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 119.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	15-16
Box	119	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	158	Info in main headings field	panopticon bill
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d13 / d14
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	39669
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