JB/118/084/002

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That in the course of the said treaty, terms
had been mutually agreed on, and articles drawn
up ready for signature, when your Memorialist
was informed by the said Mr Nepean,
that by reason of a difference between the mode
of management essential to your Memorialist's
plan and the plan of management prescribed
by the said Act, doubts had arisen in the minds
of his Majesty's Ministers, respecting the practicability
or the propriety of taking into possession
the said Land under such difference, without
an express authority from Parliament: but that
Mr Pitt or Mr Dundas would as early as might
be, move for leave to bring in a Bill for that
purpose.

That a Bill, having been brought in accordingly,
did on the 7th of July last receive the
Royal assent, and forms the 84th Chapter of the
Statute of the late Sessions under the title of An
Act for erecting a Penitentiary House or Houses for
confining & employing Convicts.

That by Sections 1 & 3 of the said Act, powers
are given to your Lordships, in the first place,
for making choice of ground for the said purpose
and appointing a Feoffee or Feoffees by whom &
in whose name the purchase thereof should be
made, and in the next place, for contracting for

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Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	084	Info in main headings field
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Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
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