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9 M<hi rend="underline">r. Bentham's Memorial

In proceeding to sollicit the intimation of Your Lordships
8
Grounds of Memorialists
expectations in regard
to the quantities of land.

pleasure, in relation to the quantum and parcels of land, to be
annexed to the said Penitentiary House, it seems necessary for
Your Memorialist previously to submit the state of his wishes,
and expectations in relation thereunto, together with the grounds
thereof, which are as follows, viz: —

The quantity of the Ground, in the Estate at Battersea Rise,
which formed the basis of Your Memorialists proposal (as submitted in the Year 1793) and which
was accordingly intended, to have been allotted to the said Establishment,
amounted (as recited in the said Act of the 34th year of
his Majesty's Reign+) to 79 acres and one Rood: in round numbers
+ c. 84.
80 Acres. —

Under the original Penitentiary plan, grounded on the
Act of the Year 1779,# this same Estate had been intended to be
# 19. G. 3. c. 74.
allotted to the number of 900 Prisoners: a number which was not
in any event to have been increased; and for none of whom was any
provision intended to be made therein, after the expiration of their respective
terms of imprisonment.

The land then and there in question, was — not only in a situation
eminently desirable and valuable, but (as appears from the parcels
thereof as recited in the said Act) the whole of it in a state of separate
ownership, and high culture. —

In the now intended Penitentiary Establishment, under the
said Act of 1794, // the number of Prisoners for which Your Memorialist
// 34 G. 3. c. 84.
was originally, in conformity to his said proposal, to have made provision
on the said Estate, containing 80 Acres, or on such Ground as should
be




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Marginal Summary Numbering

8

Box

118

Main Headings

panopticon

Folio number

203

Info in main headings field

mr bentham's memorial

Image

001

Titles

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f9 / f10

Penner

Watermarks

1798 <…>m

Marginals

Paper Producer

frances wright

Corrections

jeremy bentham

Paper Produced in Year

1798

Notes public

see note to letter 1541, vol. 6

ID Number

39257

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