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Memorial

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

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 or or about the 23rd
of Jany. 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 & 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 was informed by the said Mr Nepean,
that by reason of a difference between the mode
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
of the said land under such difference without an
express authority from Parliament: but that Mr Pitt or

Mr

Identifier: | JB/118/109/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
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Folio number	109	Info in main headings field	memorial
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Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
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