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Panopt. J.B. to Holford Chairman of the Penitenty Comm'ee
29 Mar. 1811.
Letter 1

Sir In part answer to Abercromby's Paper of the Queries.
1 Building Contract now impracticable

A memorandum written intimation with which I was obligingly furnished favoured together
with what I have been able to bear in mind of what passed at
with most recollections as I have been able to preserve of what passed
at the Committee during in the course of my Examination on Wednesday
the Committee last, have suggested to me the propriety of such taking this method
of stating bringing to view some incidents matters of fact which perhaps may be found the nature of which I am inclined
on my side the demand for my immediate attendance. What to hope will for that day at least be found in attendance to supersede
not the demand for my personal attendance. Whatever be the time which it may occupy in reading will I trust
be found less than what would be requisite to the to what end committing⊞ ⊞ to papers during the
sitting of the Committee
in
some an equal quantity of matter to writing in the way of question and if delivered in the shape
viva voce. from viva vo⊞2 ⊞2 and unpresumptive
statements together with
the questions and the explanations that
would naturally necessarily
arise out of a
mode of communication
so ill adapted
to the nature of the case.

1. Question: "Can you state the terms on which you would now
undertake the building and superintendence ..... of a Penitentiary House"
&c.

Answer: What concerns the building I could not now
undertake at my own risk in point of expence on any terms. [There is no limited sum, or at
least none which after the such terms as were once agreed upon, I
could expect to be granted to me — there is therefore I may say,
no proposable limited sum at which I would could now charge myself with
the expence of erecting any such building.] [The incidents that
have put it out of my power are as follows.] 1. In respect of the
details of the construction I myself having no professional acquaintance with the
subject,⊞2 ⊞2 and my own attention
being necessarily devoted
to other parts of the
business I depended my confidence dependence was altogether upon my Brother, (the (Admiral General Samuel Bentham now Commissioner
of the Navy), with whom the general idea of central inspection
had originated together with the system of mechanical inventions by which employment [and with the benefit of whose advise it
has since been carried into execution at Peters Court. 1. In was to be found for such of the Prisoners as could not be employed in trades works there, and whose
respect of life had been accustomed to, had originated: and whose life interest in the common
interest in the common uses was according to the terms agreed upon† † Finance Committee 1796 7 or 8. Sep. 28'
Draught of Contract was made to succeed mine.
He is at present stationed at Edinborough, has been or Sheerness: – his time altogether engrossed as I understand by urgent
official business. In respect of prices of materials and instruments labour,⊞3 ⊞3 and the assurance of
no unnecessary enhancement
by sinister
professional interest, his he
and I both depended my dependence was upon a most ingenious as well as trustworthy
man, a Mr Bunce, at that time Architect to the Naval works, a Mr Bunce,
who is since dead. two years ago Mr Bunce died. It had been settled by me with Mr him, and
Bunce to his perfect satisfaction that whatsoever remuneration he was
to have receive for his part in the business should be in the shape of an not in the usual shape
not as usual upon of a per centage in the expenditure, but of an in the shape
encreasing consequently with the expenditure, but in the shape of an
Annuity

Identifier: | JB/117/328/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1	1811-03-29	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	328	Info in main headings field	panopt. jb to holford chairman of the penitenty committee
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 2106, vol. 8	ID Number	38945
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