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during such Custody shall feed and Cloath such Offender and shall keep him to Labour
at such place and under such Directions as His Majesty shall by order directed to such
Overseer appoint —

Now it is hereby further Agreed, that in pursuance of the said first herebnbefore —
recited Act of the 7th Day of July 1794, the said Lords Commissioners or their Successors
shall humbly recommend to His Majesty that he will be graciously pleased to
appoint the said Jeremy Bentham to be Governor of the said Penitentiary House
or Houses and Buildings hereinbefore agreed and undertaken to be erected when
the same shall be finished and made fit for the purposes of the said Act with
their Appurtenances during his natural Life with the same Powers as his Majesty
is by the said Act made in the 24th Year of his reign enabled to give to such Overseer
as therein and hereinbefore is mentioned And in Case the said Jeremy
Bentham shall be desirous of resigning such Office and Powers as aforesaid at any
time during his Life and shall nominate one or more fit and proper Person or
Persons to be appointed in his stead to Act during his Life the said Lords Commissioners
or their Successors shall humbly recommend to His Majesty that he will be
graciously pleased to appoint such Person or Persons to be Governor or Governors
as aforesaid and with such powers as aforesaid for and during the natural Life
of him the said Jeremy Bentham or for any term or Terms of Years determinable
upon his Decease if such Person or Persons shall so long live and so from
time to time during the natural life of the said Jeremy Bentham so that during
his Life such Office and Powers shall be exercised and the benefits to be derived
therefrom shall be received by the said Jeremy Bentham or some Person or Persons to
be named by him and in Case the said Jeremy Bentham shall die in the Lifetime
of his Brother Samuel Bentham [+] Knight of the Order of Saint George of the Amendment
[+] Inspector General of His
Majesty's Naval Works and
Empire of Russia Brigadier General in the Service of her Imperial Majesty the Amendment. Omitt
Empress of Russia the said Lords Commissioners or their Successors shall in like
manner humbly recommend to his Majesty that he will be graciously pleased
to appoint the said Samuel Bentham to be Governor as aforesaid with such
powers as aforesaid during his Life and in case the said Samuel Bentham
shall be desirous of resigning such office and powers at any time during his
Life or shall decline accepting such Office and powers and shall nominate one
or more fit and proper Person or Persons to be appointed in his stead to act
during his Life the said Lords Commissioners or their Successors shall humbly
recommend to his Majesty that he will be graciously pleased to appoint such
Person or Persons to be Governor or Governors as aforesaid with such powers as
aforesaid for and during the natural Life of him the said Samuel Bentham
or for any Term or Terms of Years determinable upon his Decease if such
Person or Persons shall so long live and so from time to time during the
natural Life of the said Samuel Bentham so that after the Decease of the
said

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	157	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	085	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6
Penner		Watermarks	j whatman
Marginals		Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	53455
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