JB/118/090/003

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—stance of this very spot, when first fixed upon for a
Penitentiary House. Two places were fixed upon for
as many Penitentiary Houses: One in Wandsworth
Common Field for females: this at Battersea Rise
for males. People in Wandsworth were alarmed: people
in Battersea were alarmed: the judges disallowed
the choice of Wandsworth Field, not because
they considered the alarms of neighbourhoods as sufficient
grounds for negativing such a choice, (for if
they had they must have rejected this spot as well
as the other) but because they regarded this one spot
as sufficient as well as proper for both establishments.

As to this point, your Memorialist can not
take upon him, nor is it necessary, to say precisely
of what description the individuals were, whose
investments were meant to be included in the above
mentioned calculation of £200,000: whether it included
the whole number of individuals (at whatsoever
periods their respective investments had been made)
who conceived themselves aggrieved: or whether it included such
only, whose investments had been made, at periods
subsequent to that, at which the taking possession of
the land for the purpose in question, became
known to have been suspended. Whichsoever of
these suppositions be the true one, it makes, with
respect to the justice of such claims, as your memorialist

Identifier: | JB/118/090/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	090	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f19 / f20 / f21 / f22
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	39144
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