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himself, but from the Gentleman by whom the Bill was
drawn; by whom he was informed, that it was in the
view of making appointment of your Memorialist,
and no other person, for that purpose, that the provision
in question was introduced. He begs leave to add,
that should any other person be made choice of for
that function, the time for taking possession of the
place, perhaps the choice of the place itself, and
thence one of the most essential points of the contract,
as well as your Memorialist's capacity of fulfilling
it will thus be made dependent upon the opinion,
the good pleasure, and the leisure, of some person
as yet unknown to your Memorialist: and that moreover,
if in the execution of such power, several persons
should be joined, the Execution of the said Contract
might, by a disagreement amongst such Persons, experience
an indefinite retardation, in addition to that of 15
years which it has undergone already: an apprehension
in which your Memorialist is the better grounded, inasmuch
as in this very case of the Penitentiary System, more
instances than one of such disagreement have taken
place, and were the original causes from which a
delay of so discouraging a magnitude took its use.

17.
Prayer in respect to
the Land, why it
confines itself to the
Old Spot.

In speaking of the place to be made
purchase of as aforesaid; your Lordships may have

Identifier: | JB/118/047/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	17
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	047	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10
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	39101
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