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I have laid before the Duke of Portland your Letter of the
25th of August last, in answer to mine on the subject of Mr.
Bentham's Memorial, respecting the Necessity of an Increase
of Charge in the Terms of his Contract for erecting a Penitentiary
House; acquainting me, for the Information of the
Duke of Portland, that the Lords Commissioners of His
Majesty's Treasury, on considering the Number of Years
which have elapsed since the First Steps were taken,
with a View to the Adoption of any Plan of this Kind,
and the Variation of Circumstances which have occurred
during that Period, the improved State of the Colony of
New South Wales, as well as the various Improvements
which have since taken place in the different Gaols of this
Kingdom, and the great Increase of Terms which Mr.
Bentham now proposes, are of opinion that it would
not be expedient to carry into Effect this Plan to the
whole Extent proposed by Mr Bentham, but that they
submit to his Grace, whether, by way of Experiment, it
may be fit to carry it into Effect on a more limited
Scale, or whether, under all the Circumstances, it may be
most advisable at the present Time to relinquish it
altogether; also adding, that in the latter Case their
Lordships will feel it incumbent on them to make
such Compensation to Mr Bentham as the Loss he
has sustained in preparing for this Undertaking may
appear to them to deserve.
And

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	121	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	196	Info in main headings field	Secret Minutes
Image	001	Titles
Category	Collectanea	Number of Pages	1
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Penner		Watermarks	1800
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	001
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