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Commrs of Treasury with Bentham

And whereas the fee simple of the said piece
of ground will when purchased best according to
the powers of the said Statute vested in some
Trustee appointed for that purpose by the Kings Majesty
his Heirs and or Successors which Trustee may after
the decease of the survivor of the said Jeremy and
Samuel Bentham be some

And whereas the said Buildings it appears by a
Report made to the Honourable the House of Commons by a Committee
of the said House and dated the 22d day of March
1784 it appears, that according to the first estimates made
by Messrs Blackburn and Hardrich, Architects of the expence
of building erecting a Penitentiary Houses fit for the reception
of 900 Convicts Prisoners according to the plan presented
by the Statute of the 19 of his Majesty chapter 74
the same would have amounted to the Sum of £210,352
making for the said Jeremy Bentham hereby intended number of
1000 being the least number herein intended to be committed to the charge
of the said Jeremy Bentham under the said that of
the less S 1000 prisoners the sum of £233,724:8:10½,[+]
[+] and according to
the reduced estimate
afterwards made by them the
said Surveyors Architects
would have for the
said number of 1000 have
amounted to £183,659:4:9¼,
exclusive of the expences
of fitting up and stocking the same, which could said establishment, all which expences together
considering the usual and almost unavoidable difference between
estimated and actual expence could not
not reasonably be estimated reckoned less than £215,000 in the whole,
insomuch that the said Jeremy Bentham supposing him [+]2
[+]2 whensoever he shall
have fulfilled the present
agreement in relation to
the said intended Building with establishment
including the fitting up and stocking
the same may
reasonably be computed to
— have saved to the public 3[+]
the
3[+] the public to the amount
of £200,000 out of the
said £215,000 at the
least —
And whereas the said sum of £15,000 which being all
that remains will remain of the said allowed sum of £27000
after setting apart the sum of £12000 for the maintenance
of the said thousand Convicts Prisoners for one year is only not by any means a
partial

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	115	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	063	Info in main headings field	commrs of treasury with bentham
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f35 /
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	37438
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