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<p n="749">Sir</p>
<p n="750">Having obtained the First Premium for a Design<lb></lb>
for a House of Correction for the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50792_geo990">Middlesex</rs>
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I shall esteem<lb></lb>
it a particular<obscured></obscured>
if you will present my most grateful<lb></lb>
acknowledgements to the Gentlemen in the Commission who have<lb></lb>
honoured me with so Flattering a Division.</p>
<p n="751">As upon Enquiry I understand that the Gentlemen have<lb></lb>
appointed <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50792_n751-1">Jacob Lerour</rs>
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at their Architect, for carrying <lb></lb>
their Designs into execution; I feel myself restrained from<lb></lb>
an application for that Office, which the decision in my favour<lb></lb>
might otherwise have warranted.</p>
<p n="752">Having been much conferred for<obscured></obscured>
in the forming my<lb></lb>
Design I was Necessesated deliver the original sketches; and<lb></lb>
precluded the possibility of retaining any copy other f the Plans<lb></lb>
on Description should it therefore he consonant with the indulgence<lb></lb>
of the Magistrates, to grant my permission to obtain a Copy<lb></lb>
of them I shall feel myself under an addition at obligation<lb></lb>
to that already conferred on</p>
<p n="753">Sir<lb></lb>
Your most obedt & Humble Servt.<lb></lb>
T Hurst</p>
<p n="754">Jany. 13th. 1785</p>
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