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Mr Bentham'sEvidence

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Appendix (G)
June 23rd 1798 Examination of Jeremy Bentham, Esquire.

Question. — The Draught of an intended Contract between the Commissioners
of the Treasury and yourself, for the cofining, maintaining,
and employing Convicts in Penitentiary Houses to be erected
by you, being before the Committee; and it appearing from Documents
that have been laid before the Committee, that in the
year 1794 a Sum of £2.000 was advanced to you to enable
you to make Preparations relative to this Business, you are
desired to state whether you have made any such Preparations,
and whether you are now in readiness to sign and carry
into Execution such intended Contract.-

Answer. — I am in perfect readiness to do my Part in the
Business, and have been so little less than Five Years. In consequence
of a Proposal submitted by me in March 1792, and
approved of. Matters were so far advanced, that in July 1793
I was twice called upon, and both Times in the same
Terms to "take my Arrangements". I had at that Time, in
Conjunction with my Brother, Brigadier General Bentham, expended
some Thousand Pounds in bringing to Maturity a
System of Inventions of his for executing by Machinery,
and consequently as to the greater Part of the Business without
the Aid either of Dexterity or Good-will, the most considerable
Branches of Wood Work, besides many Branches of
Stone Work and Metal Work. Upon the Repetition of the above
Orders, in concert with my Brother, I took my Arrangements
without Delay. The system was in such Forwardness that
we were upon the Look-out for a Steam Engine — Human
Labour, to be extracted from a Class of Persons, on whose Part
neither Dexterity nor Good-will were to reckoned upon, was now
substituted

Identifier: | JB/120/038/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 120.
Date_1	1798-06-23	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	120	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	038	Info in main headings field	mr bentham's evidence
Image	001	Titles	appendix (g) / june 23rd 1798 examination of jeremy bentham, esquire
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