JB/118/211/004

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to 79 Acres and one Rood: in round numbers 80
Acres.

Under the original Penitentiary Plan, grounded
on the Act of the Year 1779,* the same Estate had*19. G. 3. c. 74.
been intended to be 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
+34. G. 3. c. 84.
for which Your Memorialist was originally, in
conformity with his said proposal, to have made provision
on the said Estate, containing 80 Acres, or
on such Ground as should 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

Identifier: | JB/118/211/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	8
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	211	Info in main headings field
Image	004	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10 / f11 / f12
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::[monogram] 1799 [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1799
Notes public	see note to letter 1541, vol. 6	ID Number	39265
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