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Panopticon Bill
Metasylum
Art. 4. When any Metasylum man or woman
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-- and after three such
certificates running,
declarations of absolute
emancipation --
has obtained for three years without interruption three such
certificates of good-behaviour as aforesaid, the Governor may
at any time at his discretion annex to such Certificates a
Declaration of absolute emancipation or discharge, which
may be according to the Form marked [E. 3.] and of
which the effect shall be that such certificated person
shall no longer be bound to make up any such election
as aforesaid.
Art. 5. Notwithstanding such emancipation
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-- their right to the
Metasylum remaining --
the emancipated person's right of being engaged in the
Metasylum from year to year shall continue.
Art. 6. Also the Governor's Bondsmanship
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-- also the Governor's
Bondsmanship --
for him or her in respect of Post-liberation Felonies:
and that although no such engagement in the Metasylum
should have taken place.
Art. 7. In respect to women, the Governor may
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Governor may emancipate
a woman from the
metasylum, in consideration
of her marriage --
at any time at his discretion remitt to a Penitentiary
or Metasylum Woman already married her obligation
to serve in the Metasylum: so also to a single woman,
upon or after her marriage.
Art. 8. But the right of every such woman
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-- her right thereto
remaining subject to the
husband's consent --
to be provided for therein shall revive at any time with
the consent of her husband: and at any rate upon her
becoming a widow.
Art. 9.
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