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To the Right Honorable the Lords
Comissioners of his Majestys Treasury

The Memorial of Jeremy Bentham
of Lincolns Inn Esquire humbly Sheweth

1.
Treaty, between Memorialist &
Administration,
wanting nothing
but signature

That, in consequence of a Proposal originally
addressed to The Right Honorable William Pitt, on
or about the 23rd of January 1791, and afterwards
with some variation resubmitted on or about the 18th
of March 1792, a Treaty was carried on with your
Memorialist, by Evan Nepean Esquire then Under
Secretary of State for the Home Department,
under the directions of the said Mr. Pitt and
the Right Honorable Henry Dundas then his
Majestys Principal Secretary for the said department,
touching the setting up a Penitentiary Establishment,
at the expense and under the direction of your
Memorialist, for the Confinement and Employment
of Convicts, upon a certain Spot at Battersea
Rise in the Parish of Battersea, which under
the authority of the Statute of the 19th of his
present Majesty Chapter 74 had been appropriated
to the said purpose.

2.
suspended on
apprehension
of want of
Parliamentary
powers

That, in the course of the said Treaty, terms
had been mutually agreed on, and Articles drawn
up ready for Signature, when your Memorialist
was informed by the said Mr. Nepean, that

Identifier: | JB/118/043/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-4
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	043	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	to the right honorable the lords commissioners of his majesty's treasury
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2
Penner		Watermarks	coles
Marginals		Paper Producer	patrick colquhoun
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	see note to letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39097
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