1818 June 18

Parl. Reform Bill

Abregé

VIII Penal Securities

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1. Black Book. 2. Procedure.

To the general harshness of the systems still in force in regard to punishment the

generally improved state of the public mind as well in respect of social affections

as in respect of intellectual culture admitts on this occasion the proposition of one

of a somewhat new description in the character of a substitute to some of those at

present or of late in use. This is inscription in the black book: with or without

ulterior publication.

{The punishments for which it is intended as a substitute are 1. the pillory,

abolished by a late Law, in Great Britain and Ireland, but not yet so universally in

the Continent of Europe: 2. the Carcase[?] a /another/ mode of punishment not yet out

of use on the continent a moveable sort of pillory which the delinquent carries about

with him as he goes.}

In every Polling Office is kept a Book appropriated to this purpose. In the case of

certain Election Offences, entry is made of the name of the delinquent in this book.

Supposing the offence accompanied with criminal consciousness In conjunction of /with

this/ his name is entered the general name /denomination/ of the offence: viz. /for

example/ forgery, deceptious personation, perjury &c with a description more

or less particular of the occasion and the manner in which on the individual

occasion, the offence was committed: publication more or less diffused, by means of

the National Government Newspaper called the London Gazette, with or without the

addition of the Newspaper or Newspapers.