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such directions will be is made with the concurrence of the Crown. I say
the right of the Supervisors to take possession of the premises for the benefit of the party is no way affected
by the use they make of them when taken possession of: if it
were, the owners of the land, if ever they wished to have it back
again need but to watch for any little departure intended or
unintended from the directions of the Act (which in respect
of the this intended Pr Penitentiary system are not in every instance perfectly
intelligible or consistent) in order to the get the land
back back again with £200,000 worth of buildings upon it, and soor knock the whole system on the head. Two things,
"the Supervisors could not hinder our doing: setting up the
Panopticon immediately in any other place, or setting it
up in that very place, as soon as Parliament meets and
an Act can be passed for that purpose: what we want
of them is to enable us to begin so much sooner than we
could otherwise.
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Jeremy Bentham |
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