JB/118/355/001

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12 March 1812
Panopticon Amendment for the Penitentiary Bill

Reasons for the proposed Amendment page 3 line
according to which the land would not be taken from him
till compensation were at the same time made.

1. When the £12,000 for the purchase of the land in question of which he was
thereupon put in possession was advanced, it was advanced in such a⊞ ⊞ mode and form
the particulars
unknown to him
but the effect of
which was that
he was declared
not to be subject
to account.

1. The hardship long course of hardship to which (as per 28th Finance Committee
Report) he had been subjected having as it
seemed been considered a construction that he could not
but put upon this operation transaction was that the object was to
afford him pro tanto an indemnification, serving for
his present subsistence, and saving him from that an impoverishment not far from ruin to which he would otherwise have been subjected.

His claim to indemnification being too as
well as too strong to be subject exposed to dispute, and to so far
from being disputed having over and over been especially
and spontaneously recognized coupling this recognition
with the course of inaction maintained on the subject by several successive administrations a supposition which it is hoped
will not appear either unnatural or altogether unwarranted is that
it the enjoyment was tacitly designed to be left to him during his life
and that whensoever it should seem and that upon his death the or at whatsoever other point of time the matter should come
to be taken into consideration, that a least would be
continue to be given up to his representatives natural family, and in the
first place to his brother whose interest in the Contract was
to follow upon his own.

Identifier: | JB/118/355/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1	1812-03-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	355	Info in main headings field	panopticon amendments for the penitentiary bill
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	39409
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