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15 Mr Bentham's Memorial --
as necessary, to the said intended Establishment: — that, to save the Public
from that charge, Your Memorialist has, without any indemnification, or
hope of indemnification, or other advantage, whatsoever, taken upon
himself to engage, that the surrender of the outstanding term in the
said premises shall not be insisted upon: — that, with regard to such
parcels of the said Estate as were held at Will, whether immediately
of the Landlord, or of any intermediate Tenant, Your Memorialist (still
for the same purpose of reducing the charges of indemnification) took
upon him to avail himself, of the short interval that remained before
the quarter day — viz the 25th of last Month (March 1800) — for the giving and
causing to be given such Notices, in virtue whereof, by the end of the half
Year commencing on the said 25th of March — viz by the 29th of September
next (1800) — the several rights and interests concerned will be extinguished
gratis, according to the rules of the common law: — that, by means of
such notices so given, the charge of indemnification, in the said several
instances, should possession come to be taken thereof respectively at the
public expence, before the said 29th of September next, is daily growing
less and less — without expence to the public — by lapse of time: — that, with
respect to a part — (though it is, and for some time will be, absolutely
impossible for Your Memorialist to say precisely what part) — of the said
Estate, the claims for such indemnification may thus be extinguished
gratis: — that the said several extinctions — being effected, either by lapse
of time, or by absolute sacrifices made by your Memorialist — will all
be effected at his expence: - that, after all his exertions, made in the
above and many other ways, for the purpose of keeping down the
amount of the said charge, it remains still a matter of doubt,
with
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frances wright |
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see note to letter 1541, vol. 6 |
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