JB/119/193/001

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Panopticon Bill. General Preamble 3
Expence of purchasing
Ground and building
as per estimate.

Art.3. And Whereas Estimates of the expence
of building such Penitentiary Houses were on the 1st of
July 1782 given in according to the direction of the said
Act, amounting in the whole for the buildings and
other ground charges alone, to the sum of £210,352
for the said number of 900 Prisoners, being at the rate
of £233,724 and upwards for the now intended number
of 1000 as herein after mentioned, exclusive of the
charge of furnishing and stocking the said then intended
establishment: which said estimate having
been objected to on account of the magnitude of the
expence, a reduced estimate was given in or on about
the 15 of March 1784 to the amount of £165, 267 for
the said number of 900 Prisoners: (being at the rate
of £183,652 and upwards for the said number of
1000, making, for land buildings and other ground charges
alone, upwards of £190,000, exclusive of the
charges of furnishing and stocking as aforesaid, of
which no estimate was made) but on account of the
doubts which still remained respecting the propriety
of subjecting the public to so heavy a charge in the
first instance no money hath yet been issued for
the erection of such intended Buildings or for the
purchase of the said Ground.

Art.4.

Identifier: | JB/119/193/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 119.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	3
Box	119	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	193	Info in main headings field	panopticon bill
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d5 / d6
Penner		Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	39704
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