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 BRITISH LEGISLATION. 



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ACTS PASSER hi the bCtJl YEAR of the UEIG\ of OEORGE THE THIRD, OT in tJlt 

 fOt'UTH SESSION vf the IIKIH PARLIAMENT of the UxMTED KINGDOM. 



C'iAP. XLTir. Toregnlato the Or- 

 J ncral Pcnitenliarii for Convicts at 

 Millhauk, ill the Counfi/ of Middlesex. 

 —June 22. 



Tlie preamble states, that, by an Act 

 piis-ed in the fifiy-vccoiid year of bispi esent 

 Miijcsty, t'cr the erection of a Peniti-,n- 

 TiARv HoLSEfor tlie roiitinenieiit of offen- 

 ders O'nvicted wiiUin tlic city of London 

 and county of Middlesex, and wliii h \vX, 

 by the provisions thereof, was extended 

 also to oSenders convicted in other parts 

 of Eii|i;Iand and ^VaIe5, a Penitentiary lias 

 been erected at Millbank, in the connly of 

 Middlesex, for the confinement and em- 

 ployment of male and female convicts ; and 

 that l!ie same is now completed for the 

 reception of a part of the iMmdier intended 

 to be confined therein. 



.Siipervisois may make accommodatioi) 

 for 4;;o male and too female convicts, 

 who ni;iy he confined in the said Pciutca- 

 tiary at the same litne. 



The committee which has been appoint- 

 ed by the Privy Council to superintend 

 the said I'euitentiary shall not at any time 

 consist of less than ten, nor more than 

 - twenty, persons in number at the same lime. 

 The commitlee, or any tinee of Ihem, 

 to hold meetiny;s, and make bye laws, 

 lules, orders, atid ie;;ulations, for the jro- 

 ■temment of the said I'eniteniiary, and for 

 receivinjj, separating, classing, dieiing, 

 clothing', maintaining, emplojini», reforni- 

 ing, manaeins, trcatinsr, and v.atchin<r the 

 convicts during Ihiir respective confine- 

 rieut theiein, as to the said commiltee 

 ihail seem just and proper; provided that 

 siich bye laws, rules, and orders, shall not 

 liave force until they shall have been snh- 

 mitied to the justices of his IVlajcsty's 

 Court of King's Bench, and mitil surli jus- 

 tices shall have siibscrihed a declaration, 

 that tliey do not see any thing in them con- 

 trary to law. 



The committee, or any tlirpe nf them, 

 niay appoint any one or more of their said 

 members t-) visit the said penitentiary, du- 

 ring the intervals between the meetings of 

 the said committee, and to delegate, if 

 they shall think fit, power to such visitors, 

 or any of them, to make any order, or give 

 any directions, in cases of pressing emer- 

 gency. 



There shall be elected and appointed by 

 the said committee, a governor, a chap- 

 lain, a secretary and examiner of accounts, 

 a surgeon or apothecary, a master manu- 

 facturer, a steward, and also, for that por- 

 tion of the Penitentiary set apart for fe- 

 male convicts, a matron j together witb 



Mich taskmasters, and other ofHcers antf 

 servant*, as the said committee, with ih* 

 approbation of the principal secetary of 

 stale for the home department, shall judge 

 necessary. 



It shall and may be lawful fur bis Ma- 

 jesty, by an order in vvritim,', to be notified 

 by the said Secretary of State, to direct, 

 that any person who irray he under sen- 

 tence or order of tran*pi)rtation, for any 

 ortenco conuniltcd within that pait of the 

 United Kingdom called Knuiaml and 

 M'ales, and who, having been examined by 

 an experienced surgeon or apolheoar)', 

 shall appear to be free from any putrid or 

 infectious distemper, and tit to be renjovecl 

 from the gaol or prison in wliicli such per- 

 son may be confined, shall be removed to 

 file said Penitentiary, theie to remain and 

 continue for and daring the tcmi of five 

 years, in case such convict shall be under 

 sentence or order of transportation for 

 seven years only, and for and during the 

 term of seven years in case such convict 

 shall be nnder such sentence or order for- 

 fourteen years; and for and during the 

 term of ten years, in case such convict 

 shall be under such sentence or order for 

 life. 



In case any convict shall be removed 

 to the said Penitentiary, who, having bcea 

 nnder sentence of transportation for seven 

 years, shall, previously to being removed 

 to the said Penitentiary, hare been kept 

 confined in some other gaol or prison, du- 

 rins: a part of such term, such eonvict, 

 shall he confined in the said Penitentiary 

 muier this Act, for live-seventh parts of 

 the residue of his or her term of" seven 

 years transportation, remaining unexpired, 

 and in case any con\ ict shall be removed 

 to the said Peiiitenliary, who, having been 

 nnder sentence or order of transportation 

 for the term of fourteen years, shall, pre- 

 viously to his or her being so removed, 

 have been kept confined in some other 

 gaol or prison during a part of such terra, 

 such convict shall be confined ia the said 

 Penitentiary under this Act for one-half of 

 the residue of his or her term of fourteen 

 years transportation remaining nnexpired; 

 and in the case of any convict who, havina; 

 been under sentence or order of transpor- 

 tation for life, shall be removed to the said 

 Penitentiary for the term of ten years as 

 aforesaid. 



When any convict who shall be ordered 

 to be confined in the said Penitentiary 

 shall be brought thither, he or she shall be 

 separately lodged and washed, cleansed 

 and purified, and shall then be examined 



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