JB/115/065/004

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4 Reasons continued.

that time the prices of divers articles necessary as materials
for the said intended Building as well as of divers articles
necessary for the maintenance of the said establishment, the
expence of which maintenance for the first year was included in
the said estimate of £27,000, may by the circumstances of the
times be found to have undergone a considerable enhancement,
in consequence whereof the effective power of the said proposed
partial allowance of £27,000 as well of the said Proposer's
private stock destined to have been added thereto is though
nominally the same, become in effect so much the less and
proportionally insufficient for the said intended purposes
And Whereas in particular the price of bricks hath within
the said period undergone an enhancement by means of a
duty thereon imposed by Parliament, to wit by an Act of the
28th of March 1794 Ch.15, as also the price of glass by an
Act of the |^^^| 1794 Ch. 37—And Whereas the
delay from whence such encrease of charge hath accrued hath
not happened through any default on the part of the said Proposer
Now therefore it is hereby farther agreed that the said
Jeremy Bentham and his Representatives shall at any time
and so from time to time be at liberty to deliver in an account
of all or any such articles expended either in quality of
materials used in the construction of the said Building and
its appurtenances, or in quality of provisions or other necessaries
for the prisoners actually consumed within the said year
together with the times at which they were respectively contracted
for, accompanied with a comparative statement of
the prices at the two periods in question and the amount
of the enhancement upon each: such account to be accompanied
by proper vouchers for the proof as well as well of
the

Identifier: | JB/115/065/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 115.
Date_1	1795	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	115	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	065	Info in main headings field	draught of contract
Image	004	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / d2 / d3 / d4
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	37440
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