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11 Mr. Bentham's Memorial --

Of the said quantity of 112 Acres, 35 Acres are in a state of
absolute Waste: many Acres thereof being constantly covered with
Water, and requiring to be drained, as well as the whole thereof to
be fenced.

Under the circumstances, Your Memorialist humbly sibmitts,
whether the said total number of 112 Acres, should the completion thereof
prove at any time to be attainable, would be excessive.

In the event of its being Your Lordships pleasure, that the
9.
Proposition -- Purchase
money, for the 35 Acres,
to be advanced to Me-
morialist -- to be laid out
as opportunities occurr --
The interest, mean time,
to serve for his indemnification.
said intended Contract should be signed, and the said building
be begun to be erected on the said Salisbury Estate, without waiting
for the appropriation of the said 35 Acres of Waste — Your Memorialist
begs leave further to submitt to Your Lordships, whether, by way of temporary
or provisional indemnification, in respect of the deficiency thence
arising in the said quantity of Ground, it might not be reasonable,
and conformable to the spirit of the treaty between Your Lordships and
Your Memorialist, that an advance should be made to Your Memorialist,
adequate to the purchase of such deficient quantity of Ground: (f)
(f) See Notes
the quantum of such intended purchase money, to be computed at the
same rate per acre, as in the case of the purchase already made, of the
said Salisbury Estate; such sum to be applied — either to the purchase
of the said 35 Acres of Waste, if, within any reasonable space of time
the same shall be obtainable, or to the purchase of any such other
parcel or parcels of Ground, contiguous or near adjacent to the said
already made purchase, as may, within such reasonable space of
time, be conveniently to be purchased, under the powers of the said
existing Act: the surplus of such intended purchase-money (should
any

Identifier: | JB/118/204/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	9-10
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	204	Info in main headings field	mr bentham's memorial
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f11 / f12
Penner		Watermarks	a<…> 1798
Marginals		Paper Producer	frances wright
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1798
Notes public	see note to letter 1541, vol. 6	ID Number	39258
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