JB/115/095/001

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To all to whom these presents shall come greeting

Whereas in and by the Statute of passed on the y seventh <add>day of</add> July in the Year of our
Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety four and of his Majesty's
reign the thirty-fourth intitled + + p. 1219 An Act for erecting a Penitentiary
House or Houses for the confining and employing Convicts power is given
to ++ ++ p 1222.l.7. the Commmissioners of the Treasury for the time being to pro fix
upon a proper spot of ground upon which shall be erected one or more Penitentiary,
House or Houses for the purpose of confining and employing in Hard Labour
such Convicts as shall be deemed removed thither by order of his Majesty
his Heirs or Successors under the powers therein mentioned to wit either
upon a certain piece or pieces of ground therein and herein after described

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or upon any other as convenient and proper spot of ground situated and
circumstances as therein mentioned, as also when such spot shall have
been so fixed upon to appoint a ffeoffee or ffeoffees to treat for the
absolute purchase in fee simple of the same and to accept a conveyance
thereof in And which ffeoffee or ffeoffees when so appointed it is
thereby enacted and declared that the inheritance in fee simple of
such piece or pieces of ground with the appurtenances shall be
vested in and that the same shall be convey'd and assured to such
ffeoffee or ffeoffee when so appointed to the use of such feoffee or ffeoffees and his or
their successors for ever to which inteal the said ffeoffee or ffeoffees
for the time being is and are thereby made and declared to be a corporation
sole or a corporation aggregate as the case may be shall
happen to be for the special purpose of being capable to take and hold in

Identifier: | JB/115/095/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 115.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	115	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	095	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	legal document	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman
Marginals		Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	37470
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