JB/116/387/001

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Number 8 allowance for building & maintenance
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My Lords, Whitehall 14 Oct. 1799.

Mr King having laid before me a Letter from
Mr Long of the 27th ulte, desiring, by command of
your Lordships, to be apprized of the number of Convicts,
which the Panopticon proposed to be erected by
Mr Bentham, is intended to accommodate. I have
examined the Acts of the 19th & 34th of his present
Majesty, relative to the building of Penitentiary Houses
for confining and employing in hard labour, Persons
convicted of transportable and other Crimes.

I understand the object of these Acts to be, that
such Penitentiary Houses should be used principally
as receptacles for such transportable Convicts as the
several Gaols of the respective Counties cannot contain,
from the time of their receiving sentence, till an
opportunity may offer for their being transported.

With respect to the probably number of transportable Convicts —

no safer rule can be adopted, than by taking the
greatest number of the four last years of Peace:
though it may increase, yet the increase of live
Stock use will probably more than counter balance the
difference.]

will probably more than counterbalance the difference.

Identifier: | JB/116/387/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1799-10-14	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	387	Info in main headings field	number & allowance for building & maintenance
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	see note to letter 1514, vol. 6	ID Number	37920
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