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<p>Sir<lb/>On Saturday last I was favoured with<lb/> an audience of a few minutes by M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Long, on<lb/> the subject of the Penitentiary business: and as<lb/>the result was a recommendation on his part to<lb/> state to you at large what I was ready to have<lb/>stated equally at large and did in part state to<lb/>him, it becomes necessary to me to trouble you in<lb/> some measure with what passed on that occasion<lb/> betwixt that gentlemen & me.</p> | |||
<p>His proposition was, that two Surveyors<lb/>should be appointed by a day he mentioned to<lb/>make choice under the Act of a spot for the purpose,<lb/> intimating that it was with a view to finding<lb/>out some other spot to serve in lieu of the present<lb/>one: and if I did not misunderstand him<lb/>he proposed to be present on the occasion as well<lb/>as myself. My answer was, that as I could not<lb/>hold myself concluded by the judgment of any<lb/>two Surveyors and I was satisfied by experiment<lb/>that every search after an attainable spot that<lb/> should in my judgment be "as proper & convenient"<lb/>(to use the words of the Act) would be fruitless.<lb/>I should not think myself justified in<lb/><add>concurring</add></p> | |||
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Sir
On Saturday last I was favoured with
an audience of a few minutes by Mr Long, on
the subject of the Penitentiary business: and as
the result was a recommendation on his part to
state to you at large what I was ready to have
stated equally at large and did in part state to
him, it becomes necessary to me to trouble you in
some measure with what passed on that occasion
betwixt that gentlemen & me.
His proposition was, that two Surveyors
should be appointed by a day he mentioned to
make choice under the Act of a spot for the purpose,
intimating that it was with a view to finding
out some other spot to serve in lieu of the present
one: and if I did not misunderstand him
he proposed to be present on the occasion as well
as myself. My answer was, that as I could not
hold myself concluded by the judgment of any
two Surveyors and I was satisfied by experiment
that every search after an attainable spot that
should in my judgment be "as proper & convenient"
(to use the words of the Act) would be fruitless.
I should not think myself justified in
concurring
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fair copy of letter 988, vol. 5 |
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