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In obedience to the commands signified by me what I have to say is as follows 1

Q.S.P. 28 Jany 1809

Sir

In obedience to the commands, signified to me on the
part of the Lords Commrs of his Majesty's Treasury, by
your letter, dated the 26th but not till this day delivered,
in which I am required "to transmitt to you forthwith
"my Account and Vouchers for the expenditure of the sum
"of £12,000 issued to me for the purchase of ground for
"erecting a Penitentiary House for Convicts", what I have
to say is as follows, viz

In directness of speech no such sum nor any sum was
issued to me at any time for that purpose, and therefore it is that I
have neither Account nor Vouchers to produce for the expenditure
of it.

True it is, according to my recollection, a form of receipt
was signed by me acknowledging the receipt of that sum:
which document I make no doubt is forthcoming, and may
be obtained by application made by from the proper quarter to
the proper hand. . . equally true it is, that the sum so received
can not but have been applied to the purpose abovementioned,
being the purpose to which at the issuing it was destined

Signing a document by which acknowledgment was made
of the receipt my having received a sum of money which
in fact had not come into my hands was unquestionably an
irregularity, nor did its title to that the title of the wor being so denomination the escape the
my observation at the time. But at the time in question I had experienced
from other quarters in my endeavour to bring the transaction to a conclusion too many difficulties not to be disposed to add make of
myself any unnecessary addition to the number, on a
point of mere form, form which no mischief or any inconvenience
in any shape could result.

Identifier: | JB/122/103/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 122.
Date_1	1809-01-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	122	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	103	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering	F1
Penner		Watermarks	IPING 1804
Marginals		Paper Producer	Bernardino Rivadavia
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1804
Notes public	Draft of letter 2027, vol. 8	ID Number	001
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