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5 March 1798
Documents that may be requisite to be ordered in
by the Committee of Finance from the Treasury
relative to the intended Mr Benthams Penitentiary Contract plan.
Transmitted to the
Treasury by the Sollicitor
Mr White on or about
the month of Jany
1796 }
Draught engrossed ready for signature
No 1 The Lords Commrs of the
Treasury
to
Jeremy Bentham Esqr }
Instrument of appointmt
of Feoffee to treat for
purchase of Lands at
Battersea Rise for the
erection of a Penitentiary
House in pursuance of
Stat. 7 July 1794 34. Geo. 3.
Stat. 34 Geo. 3. 7th July 1794
Draught ready engrossed
for signature – but not
signed {
No 2. The Lords Commrs of
the Treasury
with
Jeremy Bentham Esq. }
Contract for the erection
and management of a
Penitentiary House for
maintaining confining and employing
Convicts in pursuance
of the Stat. 34 Geo. 3
7th July 1794
Transmitted by Mr
Bentham according to
order to the Rt Hon.
H. Dundas Oct. 31. 1794, and by him
soon after to the Lords
Commrs of the Treasury. }
No 3 Jeremy Bentham Esqr
to
The Lords Commrs of the
Treasury }
Memorial praying the
signature and execution
of the Contract for the above
purpose under the said
Act: the said Act having
been brought in and passed
for no other purpose
A few days after the
29th December 1796 }
Minute in the Book of
the proceedings of the Treasury
Board Ordering a Draught
of a Bill to explain and amend
the Stat. 34 Geo: 3
7 July 1794 to be laid before
the Atty and Sollr Generals. }
Penitentiary House in a part thereof
under Stat. 34. Geo. 3. c.
7 July 1794.
A few days before the 11
Decr 1797 }
No 5. Do in Do ordering a Draught of a
Bill for inclosing and dividing Tothill
Fields for the purpose of erecting a
Penitentiary
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