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by reason of a difference between the mode
of management essential to your Memorialist's
plan and the plan of management prescribed
by the said Act, doubts had arisen in the
minds of his Majesty's Ministers, respecting the
practicability, or the propriety, of taking into
possession the said Land, under such difference,
without an express authority from Parliament: but
that Mr. Pitt or Mr. Dundas would, as early
as might be, move for leave to bring in a
Bill for that purpose.
3.
Bill brought in accordingly
and passed
That a Bill, having been brought in
accordingly, did on the 7.th of July last receive
the Royal Assent, and forms the 84.th Chapter of
the Statute of the late Sessions under the title
of An Act for erecting a Penitentiary House
or Houses for confining and employing Convicts
4.
Powers given (interalia)
to the Treasury
by the Act-
That by Sections 1 and 3 of the said
Act, powers are given to your Lordships, in
the first place, for making choice of Ground
for the said purpose, and appointing a
Feoffee or Feoffees by whom and in whose
name the Purchase thereof should be made,
and in the next place, for contracting
for the Erection of any number of
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to the right honorable the lords commissioners of his majesty's treasury |
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