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Memorandum of a Contract or Agreement made this day of
March one thousand eight hundred between John Donne of Milbank in
the liberty of Westminster Nurseryman and Jeremy Bentham of Lincolns Inn
in the County of Middlesex and also of Queen Square Place in the City
of Westminster Esquire. —

Whereas under and by virtue of an Act passed in the 34th Year
of his Majestys Reign and intituled an Act for erecting a Penitentiary House
or Houses for confining and employing Convicts (34th G.3.c.84 7th July 1794)
powers are given to the Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being to fix
upon a proper spot of Ground for the purpose of such Penitentiary Establish
ment as aforesaid, and to appoint a Feoffee or Feoffees by whom and in
whose name such spot shall be purchased and holden in perpetual
succession in fee simple. —

And whereas under and by virtue of the said powers a spot of
Ground late? the Estate of the Marquis of Salisbury at Milbank aforesaid hath
lately been purchased in manner aforesaid of the said Marquis by the said
Jeremy Bentham as sole Feoffee appointed by the said Commissioners.

And whereas in and by the said Act is further provided that such
Feoffee shall over and above the purchase money for the Owner or Owners of such
Ground, make or tender such satisfaction, in money or otherwise, to the several
Occupiers being Tenants for Years of from Year to Year or at Will of the same
or of any parcel or parcels thereof, in respect of their several rights & interests
in the premises, as such Feoffee shall in his discretion think fit.

And whereas the Parcels comprized in the said lean consist of a Nursery
Ground containing by admeasurement seven Acres one Rood and ten Perches
or thereabouts in the occupation of him the said John Donne and of divers
Tenements holder of him by divers person as Tenants at Will, which said Tenements
together

Identifier: | JB/117/163/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1	1800-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	163	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	3
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	am 1798
Marginals		Paper Producer	frances wright
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1798
Notes public	see note 3 to letter 1526, vol. 6	ID Number	38780
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