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depends upon him in relation to the business. As to the money
Government will find it by the supposition, or if they had rather,
we will find it. True it is that the clause which gives the
"Supervisors the power or any two of them, their workmen or
"Agents the power to take possession of the premises declares that adds "for
"the uses and purposes of this act" — See Stat 19 G.3.ch.74.§§ 12. But what is the meaning
of that limitation? — only that it shall be for the general
publick purpose of the Penitentiary System, and not for any private
purpose of their own: what particular steps they take afterwards,
for the carrying that system into execution, is a matter
which the owners of the land have nothing to do with, and
can not be understood to take away or restrain their the Supervisors' power
of getting the premises into their hands. If they misuse
their power afterwards and infringe in any instance the
directions of the Act, it is for the Crown or any other persons
concerned to call them to account for it. But by the supposition
whatever departure is intended afterwards to be made from
such

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Date_1	1792-09-18	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	541	Main Headings
Folio number	365	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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