JB/150/377/002

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Police Report
Penitentiary

Observing in the account
lumping article of £ of which an
undefined part appeared to have been offered to Jeremy
Bentham Esqr. to enable him to make prep preparations
for the
of Convicts, and that this money the time of offering
this latter sum was so long ago as the month
of June 1794, your Committee were naturally
led to enquire what fruit this expenditure had been
attended with: on which occasion on enquiry made
at the Treasury, and by the examination of Mr Bentham
it appeared that a treaty still depending
and unconcluded has and which so long ago as the
beginning of August 1794 Mr Bentham had regarded
as being on the point of being consummated,
had been begun in July 1794 between the Treasury
and Mr Bentham, grounded on a Proposal of
his submitted in its original state so long ago
as the 23 Jany and in an amended state so long
ago as the 16 March 1792 for the confining
maintaining and employing Convicts at a by
contract at a reduced price, according to a plan
attended upon the face of it with numerous advantages.
Upon applying to the Treasury to know
how it happened that this proposed contract remained without being
brought to a
conclusion
still thus long unexecuted, and as also whether at present the Treasury
regarded it as expedient for the public that
it should be executed we received for answer that
the disposition on the part of the Treasury had
continued unvaried without variation in favour of the measure, that they

Identifier: | JB/150/377/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	150	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales; police bill
Folio number	377	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman
Marginals		Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	50598
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