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11 12 A penal sum to the amount of £50 shall be
paid by the Proposer in for every escape, with or without
any default of his, irresistible violence from without
excepted: the amount of which forfeiture shall
however be returned to him in case of recapture.
12 13 The lives of the Prisoner are to be insured by the
Proposer as follows. On the delivery of the prisoners
into his hands he shall be made Creditor for a certain sum viz: £100 a head shall be
invested in his hands advanced to him for for any one of in respect of such a number part
of the whole number as in the common course of
mortality may be expected to die within the year:
in consideration of which he engages to pay the said
sum of £100 immediately on the decease of
every such prisoner as within the said year shall
happen eventually to die: NOTE the balance to be paid or received by him at the conclusion of the year the number for which he
shall be paid allowed as aforesaid to be determined by the
Referees or an Umpire as beforementioned, taking the
London Bills of Mortality for the standard. As for
example if it be determined that 1/50 part of the
number, (which out of being 20 of out the 1,000)ought naturally to
die, then he shall recover the sum total of such premiums so
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