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Notwithstanding all this, the business by causes, of a nature
much too high for me, (except as above) to speak to, and for reasons of which
not any the slightest intimation had ever been given to me, having still
been kept in suspence, at length in the same month of the next year
1794, came the act 34 G.3.C.84 which had been deemed necessary to
give authority for the contract: here then was another year of deliberation.
Again about August 1798, the draught as printed and
reported in the Reports, had been brought into a state of complete
preparation, by all the law authorities, waiting for nothing but
signature: there was another year of consideration. The business still
lingering, kept back by causes constantly covered with a veil of the
profoundest secrecy- in June 1793, the Finance Committee took up
the subject, and after the enquiry made into it as stated in the 28th
Report, and receiving the answer given in favour of it by the Treasury
Board, with Mr Pitt at the head of it, gave in favour of it, that
recommendation, which may be seen in that same Report. Here
there was almost three years of consideration
confirmation from Parliament.

About two years after, viz in March 1800, so far
from viewing the plan with less favourable eyes, the Duke of Portland
then Secretary of State, in answer to an application of mine to
know what should be the number of prisoners which the building
should be calculated to contain, mentioned in a letter which I have
as and for that number, 2000: double the number originally
contracted for. Between June 1798, and this last instance of confirmation,
the interval of a little less than two years was employed in
the purchase of the land at Millbank, which by the late act has
been taken out of my hands and in negotiating with the priority
of the Treasury for the quantity of land which was still wanting
to make up the quantity originally stipulated for, and agreed to. If,

Identifier: | JB/122/473/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 122.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	122	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	473	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering	C5 / C6 / C7 / C8
Penner		Watermarks	JOHN DICKINSON & Co 1809
Marginals		Paper Producer	A. Levy
Corrections	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1809
Notes public		ID Number	001
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