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nor was the said number of 1000 regarded even
then as the whole of the number for which accommodation
might eventually come to be made provided in the said
intended Penitentiary House, according to its then
intended magnitude, inasmuch as by
Art. 3. of the printed Draught of Contract, express
provision is made for the contingency of
an influx of supernumerary prisoners these
the number thereof being considered a even then capable of rising as high
as 200: making on the whole, 1200:
as to which number making on the whole
1200: to which number would then also have come
to be added in virtue of the of the said Article Article 18th
another number, and that an indefinite
one, to be th accommodated though not in the
same building yet on the same land
one composed of all such of the said prisoners
as might from time to time choose and demand
to be provided for at any time and times during
their lives, after the expiration of their respective
terms of imprisonment: fixed number 1000; eventual supernumeraries,
200: total 1200: quondam prisoners in an indefinite number:
all to be provided for on that same the quantity of land.

Now lately, according to the intimation of
Your Lordships pleasure as in this behalf as signified
to Your Memorialist by letter dated the
25th of last month (March 1800) instead of the said
fixed number of 1000 for which accommodation
was th to have been provided in the first instance
the fixed number of 2000 is to be substituted;(a) (a) Note
The said number
of 2000 falls short
by 150 of the maximum
of transportable
convicts found co-existing at a
past period, exclusive
of convicts then transported
to New South
Wales: and under
the 34 G. 3. c.84 §.1. Convicts
not transportable transportable and other convicts are
capable of being consigned
in the Penitentiary House. with its
proportionable eventual addition of supernumerary prisoners, and
quondam prisoners to be provided for after discharge
all of those to be provided for on a quantity of land, which
at

Identifier: | JB/118/189/001 "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	189	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f12
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1798 <…>m
Marginals		Paper Producer	frances wright
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1798
Notes public	see note to letter 1541, vol. 6	ID Number	39243
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