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+ 23 Letter 3d

Lordship adorns at present. It is in answer to
a letter from to his Grace from to the Treasury dated
the 27th of the preceding month "desiring to be
"apprized of the number of Convicts which the
"Panopticon . . . . is intended to accommodate": and
is the letter that constituted or at least helped
to constitute the ground of the just-quoted
Treasury letter, written 5 months and 8 days
after the letter it was thus grounded upon,
and some time (but I do not exactly know
how long) after the determination had been taken
by mMost Noble and Right Honourable persons,
that no such building as it thus called upon
me to make pr preparations for, should be
erected. —

After stating, in regard to the object of the
Act in question (the Act of 1794 for the erection
of the Panopticon Penitentiary House requiring as
well as "authorizing" such House or Houses to be
erected) that he "understands the object of it" and
that that object is — as to "transportable convicts"
"that such Penitentiary Houses should be used. . . .
"as receptacles for such transportable convicts as
"the several Goals of the respective Counties can
"not contain" [and therefore for none that they
can contain] "from the time of their receiving
"sentence till an opportunity may offer for their "being

Identifier: | JB/116/620/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	620	Info in main headings field	letter 3d
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d23
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38153
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