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1220 ANNO REGNI TRICESIMO QUARTO Cap. 84.

tioned, should, for the Space of Twenty-one Days next after such Notice
given, neglect, or refuse to treat, or should refuse to accept such Price
as should be offered by the said Supervisors, or should otherwise not
agree for the sale of such Piece or Pieces of Ground, or if by Absence
or Incapacity they should be prevented from treating for such Sale, then
the said Supervisors should cause the Value of such Ground to be enquired
into and ascertained by a Jury of indifferent Men of the County or
Place wherein the same should be situated; and when such Jury should
have enquired of and ascertained the Value of such Ground, the said
Supervisors should thereupon order that the Sum or Sums of Money
which should appear to be the Value of such Ground should be paid
and applied in Manner therein directed, which Verdict or Inquisition
should be final; and His Majesty is thereby authorized to nominate
Three Gentlemen, or other creditable or substantial Persons, as a Committee
to Superintend the said Houses, and otherwise to carry the said
Act into Execution: Supervisors appointed under recited Act
And whereas in pursuance of the said Act, His
Majesty did, on the Second Day of March, One thousand seven hundred
and eighty-one, appoint Sir Gilbert Elliot Baronet, Sir Thomas Charles
Bunbury Baronet, and Thomas Bowdler Doctor of Physick, Supervisors of
the Buildings to be erected pursuant to the said Act, and that the said
Supervisors having made strict Examination of the most eligible Spots
in the Neighbourhood of London, and particularly on the Banks of the
River Thames, whereon to erect such Penitentiary Houses as aforesaid,
having spent some time in that Enquiry, reported to the Lord Chancellor,
and the other Persons mentioned in the said Act, according to
the Directions of the said Acts, Spots approved for erecting Penitentiary Houses.
Two Spots in the Neighborhood of
each other, namely, Wandsworth Field for the Penitentiary House for
Males, and Battersea Rise for the Penitentiary House for Females, who,
by their Opinions on the Twenty-eighth Day of June One thousand seven
hundred and eighty-one, thought proper to reject the Spot in Wandsworth
Field, and to approve the Spot at Battersea Rise, as proper for the erecting
Penitentiary Houses for both Males and Females: And whereas, in
pursuance of the said Act, the Supervisors entered into a Treaty with
the Proprietors of the said Grounds, and made an Offer of a Sum of
Money for the Purchase thereof, Jury impanelled to enquire into the Value
which being refused, a Special Jury
of the County of Surrey was summoned and impannelled according to
the Directions of the said Act, upon the Tenth Day of September One
thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, and being duly sworn, and
charged to enquire and ascertain the Value of the said Piece of
Ground, by the Names and Descriptions of all that Piece or Parcel of
Garden Ground, Particulars of the Premises.
in the Occupation of Henry Brown, containing by Admeasurement,
Seven Acres Three Roods and Six Perches, be the same
more or less, and bounded on the North by Lands in the Occupation of
Robert Moseley, and other Lands in the Occupation of Thomas Rhodes,
and on the East, on part by a Road leading out of the Road from London
to Wandsworth, to and from Battersea, and in other part on Lands
and Buildings in the Occupation of Robert Death, and on the south, by
the Turnpike Road leading from London to Wandsworth aforesaid, and
on the West, by Lands in the Occupation of the said Robert Moseley; and
also of all that Piece or Parcel of Garden Ground in the Occupation of
the said Robert Moseley, containing by Admeasurement, Nineteen Acres
and Eighteen Perches, be the same more or less, and bounded on the
North by Lands in the Occupation of the said Thomas Rhodes, and on
other

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Identifier: | JB/116/651/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1794-07-07	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	651	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles
Category	printed material	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	(1219-1228)
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	annotated by bentham	ID Number	38184
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