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Police Report
Penitentiary

Observing in the account
lumping article of £ of which an
undefined part appeared to have been offered to Jeremy
Bentham Esqr. to enable him to make prep preparations
for the
of Convicts, and that this money the time of offering
this latter sum was so long ago as the month
of June 1794, your Committee were naturally
led to enquire what fruit this expenditure had been
attended with: on which occasion on enquiry made
at the Treasury, and by the examination of Mr Bentham
it appeared that a treaty still depending
and unconcluded has and which so long ago as the
beginning of August 1794 Mr Bentham had regarded
as being on the point of being consummated,
had been begun in July 1794 between the Treasury
and Mr Bentham, grounded on a Proposal of
his submitted in its original state so long ago
as the 23 Jany and in an amended state so long
ago as the 16 March 1792 for the confining
maintaining and employing Convicts at a by
contract at a reduced price, according to a plan
attended upon the face of it with numerous advantages.
Upon applying to the Treasury to know
how it happened that this proposed contract remained without being
brought to a
conclusion

still thus long unexecuted, and as also whether at present the Treasury
regarded it as expedient for the public that
it should be executed we received for answer that
the disposition on the part of the Treasury had
continued unvaried without variation in favour of the measure, that they




Identifier: | JB/150/377/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

150

Main Headings

panopticon versus new south wales; police bill

Folio number

377

Info in main headings field

Image

002

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

b8

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

j whatman

Marginals

Paper Producer

admiral pavel chichagov

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

50598

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