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Click Here To Edit ANNO REGNI TRICESIMO QUARTO Cap.84. Supervisors appointed under recited Act. Spots approved for erecting Penitentiary Houses. Jury impannelled into the Value. Particulars of the Premises.
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 en
quired 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 an 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 Com
mittee to superintend the said Houses, and otherwise to carry the said Act into Execution: 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, Two Spots in the Neighbourhood 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, though proper to reject the Spot in Wandsworth Field, and to approve the Spot at Battersea Rise, as proper for the erect
ing 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, 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 into and ascertain the Value of the said Piece of Ground, by the Names and Descriptions of all that Piece or Parcel of Garden Ground, in the Occupation of Henry Brown, containing by Ad
measurement, Seven Acres Three Roads and Six Perches, be the same more or less, and bounded on the North by Lands in the Occupation of Robert Mosely, 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 Mosely; and also of all that Piece or Parcel of Garden Ground in the Occupation of the said Robert Moseley, containing 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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sheet extracted from the penitentiary contract act 34 g.3.c.84 § 6 as referred to in a letter from mr bentham to mr secretary long dated 31st january 1800 |
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annotated by bentham; see note 10 to letter 1494, vol. 6, of which this is the original annotated copy of the act |
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