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31 Oct. 1794.

To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners
of his Majesty's Treasury —

To the Memorial of Jeremy Bentham of Lincoln's
Inn Esqr. humbly sheweth —

That in consequence of a Proposal originally addressed to the
Right Honourable William Pitt on or about the 23rd of Janny 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
Esqr. then Under Secretary of State for the Home department, under
the directions of the said Mr Pitt and the Right Honourable Henry
Dundas then his Majesty's Principal Secretary for the said
department, touching the setting up a Penitentiary Establishment, at
the expence 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.

That in the course of the said treaty, terms had been mutually
agreed on, and articles drawn up ready for signature, when your
Memorialist understood from the said Mr. Nepean, that, 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.

That a Bill, having been brought in accordingly, did on
the 7th of July last receive the Royal assent, and forms the 84th Chapter
of the Statute of the late Sessions under the title of An Act for
erecting

Identifier: | JB/118/106/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1	1794-10-31	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	106	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / c2 / c3 / c4
Penner		Watermarks	j whatman
Marginals		Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	see notes to letter 1020, vol. 5 and letter 1309, vol. 6	ID Number	39160
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