1799: 39 George 3 c.52: An Act for continuing, until the twenty-fifth Day of March one thousand eight hundred and two, so much of an Act, made in the nineteenth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, Chapter Seventy-four, videlicet, on the twenty-sixth Day of November one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, intituled, An Act to explain and amend the Laws relating to the Transportation, Imprisonment, and other Punishment of certain Offenders, as relates to Penitentiary Houses.

[13th June 1799.]

[19 Geo. 3.C. 74. (continued by 24 Geo. 3. st. 2. c. 56: 28 Geo. 3. c. 24. and 34 Geo. 3. c. 60.) recited; and so much thereof as relates to Penitentiary Houses further continued till March 25,1802. [See cc. 45, 46, 51. of this Session.]]

‘WHEREAS an Act was made in the nineteenth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, an Act to explain and amend the Laws relating to the Transportation, Imprisonment, and other Punishment of certain Offenders: And whereas so much of the said Act as relates to Penitentiary Houses, which was to continue in force until the first Day of June one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament; and which was, by three Acts made in the twenty-fourth, twenty-eighth, and thirty-fourth Years of the Reign of his present Majesty, further continued until the first Day of June one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and from thence to the End of the next Session of Parliament, has been found useful and beneficial; and it is expedient that the same should be further continued;’ be it therefore enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty. by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That so much of the said Act as relates to Penitentiary Houses shall be, and the same is hereby further continued until the twenty-fifth Day of March one thousand eight hundred and two.

Source: Ruffhead, Statutes at Large, vol. 18.