JB/118/113/001

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To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners
of his Majesty's Treasury
The Memorial of Jeremy Bentham of
Lincoln's Inn Esqr humbly sheweth

1
Treaty, between Memorialist
& Administration,
wanting nothing but signature

That in consequence of a Proposal originally
addressed to the Right Honourable William Pitt on or
about the 23rd of Jany 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 Nepan 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 Majestys 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.

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- suspended on apprehension
of want of Parliamentary
powers

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
essential

Identifier: | JB/118/113/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-9
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	113	Info in main headings field
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Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Notes public	see note to letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39167
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