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following letters he had received from the Chairman
of the Metropolitan Board of Works and the
Financial Secretary to the Treasury:—
Metropolitan Board of Wobks,
Spbing Gabdens, S.W.,
12th May, 1887.
Dear Captain Penton,
The Memorial presented by the Deputation you accompanied
on the 14th January, is still before the Committee to which
it was referred. The Committee have been in communication with
the Home Office and are awaiting a reply to a letter addressed by
them to the Secretary of State, respecting the price to be demanded
for the site of the prisons. I think the best thing I can do is to
mention to the Committee that I have heard from you, and perhaps
they may think it well to write to the Secretary of State again, as
it is nearly three months since the former letter was sent.
Believe me,
Yours very faithfully,
J. McGAREL HOGG
Captain Penton, M P.
Treasury Chambers,
18/A May, 1887.
Sir,
I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her
Majesty's Treasury to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of tne
13th instant, and in answer to your question (1) as to the progress
of the negociations about the future disposal of the Clerkenwell and
Coldbath Fields Prison Sites, I am to inform you that my Lords
have decided to reserve part of the site of Coldbath Fields Prison
for Post Office purposes, and that until they learn from the Postmaster
General what part of the site will be required by his
department, they are unable to come to auy decision as to the
disposal of the remainder.
They will, however, request the Postmaster General to furnish
them with his report at the earliest moment.
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The two letters forwarded by you are returned herewith.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
W. L. JACKSON,
Captain Frederick Penion, M.P.,
House of Commons.