JB/122/065/001

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Office for Auditing the Public Accounts
Adelphi, London, 10th March 1808

Observations and queries that have arisen with examination
of the account of Jeremy Bentham Esquire of the money
received and expended by him for an intended Penitentiary
Establishment from the year 1794 to 1798 to which he is
desired to return answers and Explanations on or before
Monday the 21st Instant together with the Papers called
for, if they are in his custody, Power or Possession, or else
to explain to the Board why the same cannot be exhibited
in Failure the whereof the account will be closed, omitting
the articles in the Discharge part of the Account defectively
vouched.

The accountant is desired to write the answers
separately to the following observations and queries, with
blank pages left for that purpose, and to sign his name with the date, at the conclusion of the said
answers.

Richd White
Chief Inspector

Jeremy Bentham Esq.
Queens Square Place Westminster

No of the query

The accountant is required to state under what authority
the expenses were incurred by him in preparations for an
intended Penitentiary Establishment, and whether the contract
relating to the same (the Draft of which are laid before the
Committee of Finance & reported by them in their 28th Report)
has since been duly executed, and if so, he is required to
produce the same. He is also required to state whether
he has received any assurances of the intention of the Lord
Commissioners of the Treasury, to carry the original plan
of erecting Penitentiary Houses into execution and to transmit
to this Office the originals or authenticated copies
of any Letters or communication he may have received from the Treasury
on the subject.

Identifier: | JB/122/065/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 122.
Date_1	1808-03-10	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	122	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	065	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	TH 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	Andre Morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public	Copy of enclosure to letter 1956, vol. 7	ID Number	001
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