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to 79 Acres and one Rood: in round numbers 80
Acres.
Under the original Penitentiary Plan, grounded
on the Act of the Year 1779,* the same Estate had
*19. G. 3. c. 74.
been intended to be allotted to the number of 900 Pri-
-soners: a number which was not in any event to
have been increased; and for none of whom was any
provision intended to be made therein, after the expi-
-ration of their respective terms of imprisonment.
The land then and there in question, was — not
only in a situation eminently desirable and valu-
able, but (as appears from the parcels thereof as
recited in the said Act) the whole of it in a state
of separate ownership, and high culture.
In the now intended Penitentiary Establishment,
under the said Act of 1794,+ the number of Prisoners
+34. G. 3. c. 84.
for which Your Memorialist was originally, in
conformity with his said proposal, to have made provi-
-sion on the said Estate, containing 80 Acres, or
on such Ground as should be obtained in lieu there-
-of, was 1000: nor was the said number of 1000 regard-
-ed even then, as the whole of the number, for
which accommodation might eventually come to be
provided, in the said intended Penitentiary House,
according to its then intended magnitude: inasmuch
as
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