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<p><!-- indent -->Whereas in & by the Statute passed on the seventh day of July in the <del><gap/></del> | <p><!-- indent --><add>"</add><!-- speech marks added in pencil -->Whereas<!-- 1 word, larger and bold font --> in & by the Statute passed on the seventh day of July in the <del>thirty fourth</del> | ||
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<add>"</add><!-- speech marks added in pencil -->year of Our Lord One thousand seven hundred & ninety four & his Majesty's Reign the thirty-fourth | |||
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<add>"</add><!-- speech marks added in pencil -->intitled An Act for erecting a Penitentiary House or Houses for confining and employing Convicts, | |||
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<add>"</add><!-- speech marks added in pencil -->power is given to the Lord High Treasurer or the Commissioners of the Treasury for the time | |||
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<add>"</add><!-- speech marks added in pencil -->being to fix upon a proper spot of ground upon which shall be erected one or more Penitentiary | |||
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<add>"</add><!-- speech marks added in pencil -->House or Houses for the purpose of confining & employing in Hard Labour such Convicts as | |||
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<add>"</add><!-- speech marks added in pencil -->shall be removed thither by order of His Majesty his Heirs or Successors under the powers therein | |||
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<add>"</add><!-- speech marks added in pencil -->mentioned to wit either upon a certain <del>piece or</del> piece<del>s</del> <add>or pieces</add> of ground <add>[<del>therein and herein after described</del>]<!-- brackets and deletion in red ink/pencil --></add> <hi rend='underline'>situate lying and being</hi><!-- underlined in red ink/pencil --> <del>at</del> | |||
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<add><hi rend='underline'>at Battersea Rise</hi><!-- underlined in red ink/pencil --></add> <hi rend='underline'>in the Parish of Battersea in the County of Surrey and therein [particularly]<!-- brackets in pencil --> <add>"</add><!-- speech marks added in pencil -->described<add>"</add><!-- speech marks added in pencil --></hi><!-- underlined in red ink/pencil --> | |||
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<add>"</add><!-- speech marks added in pencil -->or upon any other <add>[situated and circumstanced as therein mentioned]<!-- opening and closing brackets in red --></add> as convenient and proper spot of ground <add>"</add><!-- speech marks added in pencil --> <hi rend='underline'>which may be <add><hi rend='underline'><unclear>carefully</unclear></hi></add><!-- underlined in red --> purchased | |||
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under the powers of the said Act , and which shall be situated within any | |||
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<add><hi rend='underline'>one</hi></add><!-- underlined in red --> of the respective Counties therein <add><hi rend='underline'>in that behalf</hi></add><!-- underlined in red --> referred to , <add><hi rend='underline'>as being in and by a Statute of the 19<hi rend='superscript'>th</hi> Year of his said <sic>Majestys</sic> reign for that purpose named and specified—</hi></add><!-- underlined in pencil --> to wit the Counties of Middlesex , Essex , | |||
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Kent and Surrey</hi><!-- underlined in red --> <add>"</add><!-- speech marks added in pencil -->as <hi rend='superscript'>+</hi><!-- added in pencil, a double-verticle bar cross --> <note>19. Geo. 3. ch. <unclear>74</unclear> . <gap/><!-- symbol --> . 5.</note> also when such spot shall have been so fixed upon to appoint a | |||
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<sic>ffeoffee</sic> or <sic>ffeoffees</sic> to treat for the absolute purchase in fee simple of the same & to accept | |||
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<add>"</add><!-- speech marks added in pencil -->a conveyance thereof & from time to time to appoint others<!-- symbol ? --> in the stead of those who shall | |||
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<add>"</add><!-- speech marks added in pencil -->die or resign And it is hereby enacted & declared that the inheritance in fee simple of such | |||
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<add>"</add><!-- speech marks added in pencil -->piece or pieces of ground with the appurtena<add>n</add>ces shall be vested in & that the same shall | |||
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be conveyed and assured to such <sic>ffeoffee</sic> or <sic>ffeoffees</sic> when so appointed to the use of such <sic>ffeoffee</sic> or | |||
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<sic>ffeoffees</sic> & his or their successors & the said <sic>ffeoffee</sic> or <sic>ffeoffees</sic> for the time being is and are | |||
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thereby made & declared to be a Corporation Sole or a Corporation Aggregate as the case | |||
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shall happen to be for the special purpose of being capable to take & hold in perpetual succession | |||
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<add>"</add><!-- speech marks added in pencil -->such piece or pieces of ground with all buildings & erections thereon & other the appurtenances | |||
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thereto belonging or to belong , for the use & purposes of the said Act<add>"</add><!-- speech marks added in pencil --> <hi rend='underline'>And whereas We the said | |||
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Commissioners, after due & deliberate consideration of the spot hereinafter particularly | |||
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described being a spot situated within one of the four Counties in that behalf abovementioned | |||
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to wit at <del>Woolwich</del> within the County of <del>Kent</del><!-- deleted in ink and pencil -->, have deemed & determined the same | |||
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to be a proper & convenient spot for the purposes aforesaid , & moreover after due & deliberate | |||
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comparison thereof with the said spot at Battersea <add>Rise</add> have deemed and determined the said | |||
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spot at [<del>Woolwich</del>]<!-- opening and closing brackets in pencil, and deletion in both ink and pencil --> to be not only as proper & convenient as the said spot at Battersea <add><hi rend='underline'>Rise</hi></add><!-- underlined in red --> but upon | |||
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the whole still more proper & convenient</hi><!-- underlined in red --> <add>"</add><!-- speech marks added in pencil -->Now know ye<!-- 3 word, larger and bold font --> that for the accomplishment | |||
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<add>"</add><!-- speech marks added in pencil -->of the good purposes in & by the said Act declared & in pursuance of the powers therein & thereby | |||
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<add>"</add><!-- speech marks added in pencil -->to us committed it hath seemed good to us the Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury | |||
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<add>"</add><!-- speech marks added in pencil -->to fix & we do accordingly by these presents fix upon<add>"</add><!-- speech marks added in pencil --> the <del>spot of</del> ground <hi rend='superscript'>[+]</hi> <note><add>[+]</add> <del>at Battersea Rise in the County of Surrey in the said Act and herein after particularly described</del><!-- deleted in red ink/pencil --></note> at <add>"</add><!-- speech marks added in pencil --> [<del>Woolwich</del>]<!-- brackets in pencil, with a pencil line above and below the content, giving the appearance of a rectangle --> | |||
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< | <del>as</del> <add>"</add><!-- speech marks added in pencil -->herein after particularly described as the spot upon which shall be erected | ||
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or upon | the said Penitentiary House or Houses : namely upon<add>"</add><!-- speech marks added in pencil --> | ||
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To all to whom these presents shall come greeting —
"Whereas in & by the Statute passed on the seventh day of July in the thirty fourth
"year of Our Lord One thousand seven hundred & ninety four & his Majesty's Reign the thirty-fourth
"intitled An Act for erecting a Penitentiary House or Houses for confining and employing Convicts,
"power is given to the Lord High Treasurer or the Commissioners of the Treasury for the time
"being to fix upon a proper spot of ground upon which shall be erected one or more Penitentiary
"House or Houses for the purpose of confining & employing in Hard Labour such Convicts as
"shall be 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 or pieces of ground [therein and herein after described] situate lying and being at
at Battersea Rise in the Parish of Battersea in the County of Surrey and therein [particularly] "described"
"or upon any other [situated and circumstanced as therein mentioned] as convenient and proper spot of ground " which may be <add><hi rend='underline'>carefully</add> purchased
under the powers of the said Act , and which shall be situated within any
one of the respective Counties therein in that behalf referred to , as being in and by a Statute of the 19<hi rend='superscript'>th Year of his said Majestys reign for that purpose named and specified—</hi> to wit the Counties of Middlesex , Essex ,
Kent and Surrey</hi> "as + 19. Geo. 3. ch. 74 . . 5. 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 & to accept
"a conveyance thereof & from time to time to appoint others in the stead of those who shall
"die or resign And it is hereby enacted & declared that the inheritance in fee simple of such
"piece or pieces of ground with the appurtenances shall be vested in & that the same shall
be conveyed and assured to such ffeoffee or ffeoffees when so appointed to the use of such ffeoffee or
ffeoffees & his or their successors & the said ffeoffee or ffeoffees for the time being is and are
thereby made & declared to be a Corporation Sole or a Corporation Aggregate as the case
shall happen to be for the special purpose of being capable to take & hold in perpetual succession
"such piece or pieces of ground with all buildings & erections thereon & other the appurtenances
thereto belonging or to belong , for the use & purposes of the said Act" And whereas We the said
Commissioners, after due & deliberate consideration of the spot hereinafter particularly
described being a spot situated within one of the four Counties in that behalf abovementioned
to wit at Woolwich within the County of Kent, have deemed & determined the same
to be a proper & convenient spot for the purposes aforesaid , & moreover after due & deliberate
comparison thereof with the said spot at Battersea Rise have deemed and determined the said
spot at [Woolwich] to be not only as proper & convenient as the said spot at Battersea <add><hi rend='underline'>Rise</add> but upon
the whole still more proper & convenient</hi> "Now know ye that for the accomplishment
"of the good purposes in & by the said Act declared & in pursuance of the powers therein & thereby
"to us committed it hath seemed good to us the Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury
"to fix & we do accordingly by these presents fix upon" the spot of ground [+] [+] at Battersea Rise in the County of Surrey in the said Act and herein after particularly described at " [Woolwich]
as "herein after particularly described as the spot upon which shall be erected
the said Penitentiary House or Houses : namely upon"
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