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11 March 1812
Panopticon. Penitent. Bill Amendments

11 March 1812 Wednesday. Amendments proposed for the
Penitentiary Bill which stands for Commitment on Friday
next the 13th.

1. Amendment 1. Page 1, line 12. After "Salisbury", instead
of "in" insert at Milbank near

2. Amendment 2. Page 2, line 30. Instead of After "ninety",
instead of "four" insert two.

N.B. March 1792 was the date of the Proposal in
question. So stated in Mr Bentham's Evidence, as printed
in Report 28th of the Finance-Committee of 1797-8, p.76,
and on the face of the Proposal: – as per copy in his possession.
It is material to the purpose of the compensation that the true date
be inserted.

3. Amendment 3. Page 2, line 18. After "shall" insert
immediately upon and after the making of the Award hereinafter-mentioned,
and payment of the money thereby to be awarded.

4. Amendment 4. Page 3, line 1. Here follows two forms, the
first perhaps the more eligible as well as conformable to the existing evidence as above,
the of but not so likely as the other to be accepted.
Amendment 4. Page 3, line Form 1 – After the word "purpose"
Proposed form the 1st. After the word purpose
insert as follows. And to have transferred and with enlargements adapted
to the object of such preparations a system of mechanical
inventions the benefit of which had by divers been secured to his Brother Brigadier General
Samuel Bentham the inventor, and by means of which had every been performing
performing in great variety and in an extensive had been performed and were performing in great variety and on an extensive scale
scale by machinery, without need of dexterity and without unexampled
dispatch, upon wood, stone, metal and other
materials, operations never till then performed otherwise than
by such dexterity as is not to be acquired but by long practice,
of which establishment the expected fruit together with the
capital therein expended has by the non-performance of the
said agreement been altogether lost. And for the carrying
on of the said private establishment so sacrificed, and the
said subsequent preparations states himself to have been
under the necessity of selling bonded property to considerable
amount under circumstances of disadvantage and to considerable
loss.

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Date_1	1812-03-11	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	344	Info in main headings field	panopticon penitenty bill amendments
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	39398
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