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3 Report (28th) of the Finance Committee so much as concerns Mr. Benthams Contract Plan.

Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, that they have
always felt a Disposition to carry into effect the Contract
intended to be executed, whenever a proper Spot of Ground
could be obtained; and that the Contract intended to have
been entered into has been delayed, because an essential part
of such Contract was to be the giving possession of the Land
upon which the Penitentiary House was to be Erected; but
that they are ready to enter into the Contract whenever the
preliminary Difficulties relative to the Ground are removed.

Upon further Inquiry Your Committee find that a Spot
has been pointed out, which appears well adapted to the object,
and against the appropriation of which to a purpose so interesting
to the Public no solid objection occurs; and that the
preliminary Difficulties above alluded to have arisen
from the Hulks and Orders of the House relative to Bills of
Inclosure, which are supposed to be applicable to the
Ground in question. The Difficulty is therefore one which
may be easily removed before the next Session of Parliament;
and Your Committee were glad to receive from Mr.
Bentham himself the assurance of his perfect readiness
to proceed with this part of the Business.

It is, in the Judgement of Your Committee no small
Recommendation to the Plan alluded to, that the Contractor
proposes to employ the Prisoners on his own Account, receiving
a proportionally smaller Sum from the Public for their
Maintenance.

But it must be noticed and remmembered, that
the great and important advantage which distinguish
that Plan from any other which has been hitherto suggested,
consist

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