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10 Mr Bentham's Memorial.

be obtained in lieu thereof, was 1000: nor was the said number of
1000 regarded even then, as the whole of the number, for which accommodation
might eventually come to be provided, in the said intended
Penitentiary House, according to its then intended magnitude: inasmuch
as, by Article Art 3. of the printed Draught of Contract, express provision is
made, for the contingency of an influx of supernumerary Prisoners; the
number thereof being considered, as even then capable of rising as high
as 200: to which number, would then also come to be added, in
virtue of Article Art 18, another number, and that an indefinite one, composed
of all such of the said Prisoners, as might 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 quantity
of land. —

Now lately, according to the intimation of Your Lordships pleasure,
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 to have been provided in the first instance,
the fixed number of 2000 is to be substituted, (a) with its proportionable
eventual addition, of supernumerary prisoners, and quondam prisoners: (e)
all of them to be provided for, on a quantity of land, which, at the
utmost, can never come to exceed the said total quantity of 112 Acres. —

Note
(a) The said number of 2000 falls short by 150 of the maximum of trans-
portable Convicts found as existing at a past period exclusive of Convicts then
transported to New South Wales & under the 34 G. 3. c. 84. §1 Convicts not transportable
(transportable and other Convicts) are capable of being consigned to the
Penitentiary House.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	8
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	203	Info in main headings field	mr bentham's memorial
Image	002	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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