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Articles of Agreement, had, made, concluded and
agreed upon this day of in teh thirty fifth
year of our Sovereign Lord George the 3d, by the
Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland
King, Defender of the faith, and so forth: and in the
year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety
five, between the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners
of his Majesty's Treasury on the part &
behalf of his Majesty of the one part and Jeremy
Bentham of Lincoln's Inn Esquire, of the other part.
Whereas in and by the Statute passed on the seventh
day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand
seven hundred and ninety four and of his Majesty's
reign the thirty fourth intitled an Act for erecting a
Penitentiary House or Houses for confining and employing
Convicts it is provided among other things that
the Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being,
after fixing upon a certain piece of ground therein
described for the purpose of causing to be erected thereupon
one or more Penitentiary House or Houses, for
the purpose of confining and employing in hard labour
such Convicts as are therein also described, and
appointing a Feoffee for the making purchase thereof
in manner therein also mentioned may contract
or agree with any person or persons for the erecting
and
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