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6 Mr Bentham's Memorial
was addressed to Mr. Secretary Long, offering to sell the said
premises, for the purpose of the said Penitentiary House, on condition
that a requisite portion, of the said Lot B, should be converted into
a Road, to serve in lieu of the said portion of the said Lot C, without
which the occupation of the said Lot C would, by the said proposed
appropriation of the end thereof, be debarred from all communication
with the several public Roads in the Neighbourhood of the said
Waste: which said offer, Your Lordships, by a letter from the said
Mr. Secretary Long, the exact date of which is unknown to Your
Memorialist, have since been pleased, at the sollicitation of Your
Memorialist, to refer to the Surveyor General of the Crown Lands,
for his Report relative to the price demanded in the same.
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-- Do of Lot D -- referred to Do
That the said Mr Wise, is moreover Proprietor of another
Estate (distinguished by the appellation of Lot D in the said Map
hereunto annexed) which, though not, literally speaking, contiguous,
wants but little of being so, the said Lot B; and that the said
Mr Smith, in behalf of the said Mr Wise, understanding from
Your Memorialist that an additional quantity of land, over and
above the several Lots above specified, might eventually be to be
purchased for the same use, did, by another letter, bearing date on
or about the said 12th of August last, and addressed to the said Mr
Secretary Long, in like manner make offer of the said Lot D: —
which said last mentioned offer, Your Lordships, by the abovementioned
or some other letter from the said Mr Secretary Long, were moreover
pleased to refer to the said Surveyor General, for the like purpose
as abovementioned. —
Having
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