Prisons

Scottish; General Board of Directors of Prisons Autograph Letter Signed signature illegible - see Scan to Fox Maule M.P. Home Officeabout an advance payment of £10000 for "building local Prisons" etc.

réf. 26425 — Edinburgh 27 April 1840 final number "40" and its reverse detached requiring repair. Two pages folio main text clear poor condition top edge and bottom corners fragile requiring attention closed tear at middle requires attention minor loss of text. Text: "I am directed by the General Board of Directors of Prisons to call your attention to the 53rd Section of the Scotch Prisons Act of 3 & 3 Vict. C42 and to request that you will have the goodness to ascertain and inform me whether and if so on what terms and in what mode the Commissioners for the isseu of Exchequer Bills in aid of public works will make an advance of £10000 to the General Board for the purpose of building local Prisons on security of the assessment for the year 1840 imposed under Section 36 of the Act for that purpose and of the like sum of £10000 to the Courts Boards in such proportions as may hereafter - word partly detached determined for the purpose of defraying the current Expenses of local Prisons on Security of the assessments to be imposed on the several Counties under Section 38 - In case such Loans should be entered into it is probable that half the amount of each would be required in the middle of June next and the other half towards the end of the year. Your early attention to this matter will be very obliging as the General Board desut=re to give information on the Subject to the County Boards in 10 or 12 days from this date ." Scan on both pages scanner loses an inch with small currently detached scrap available. Edinburgh, 27 April 1840 [final number "40" and its reverse detached, requiring repair] hardcover