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remainders as are also hereinafter mentioned , shall, with
in one year from his obtaining full and peaceable possession
of the piece of Ground aforesaid , at his own expence
cause to be erected and adapted to the said purpose a
Penitentiary House upon the said Panopticon plan, of proper
form and sufficient magnitude for the confining maintaining
and employing one thousand Male Convicts at
the least, together with a Chaplain, Surgeon, Taskmaster
or Schoolmaster and such other Officers with their Subordinates
as shall be found necessary to the said purpose , in which
said Building or in some Building or Buildings adjoining
a Chapel fit for the use of such Convicts Officers and Subordinates
as also a proper and sufficient Infirmary shall be
included.

Art.2. 2 Consideration money to the Contractor The said sum of £27,000 shall be paid at three
several instaments : to wit £10,000 thereof immediately upon
the signature of this Agreement: £10,000 within three
Calendar months after this date : and the remaining
£7,000 so soon as the said Buildings shall be in readiness
for the reception of the said number of Convicts, three weeks
notice at the least having been given of such readiness on
the part of the said Jeremy Bentham: such payments to
be made clear of all deductions , together with interest at
the rate of five per cent per annum for every such day, if
any, during which the same shall have continued respectively in arrear.

Art.3. 3. New. Supplemental allowance for increase of prices by taxed &c since the proposal Reasons And Whereas the Proposal of the said Jeremy
Bentham which formed the basis of the present agreement,
and in which the said sum of £27,000 was required on the
part of the said Proposer for the purposes aforesaid, was delivered
in on or about the 17th of March 1793 And Whereas
since that time the prices of divers articles necessary as

Identifier: | JB/115/084/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 115.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	115	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	084	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / d2 / d3 / d4
Penner		Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	37459
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