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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 described</hi><!-- underlined in red ink/pencil --> | <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 described</hi><!-- underlined in red ink/pencil --> | ||
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or upon any other | 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><gap/></add><!-- something very feint added in pencil --> <hi rend='underline'>which may be</hi><!-- underlined in red --> <add><unclear><hi rend='underline'>carefully</hi></unclear></add><!-- underlined in red --> <hi rend='underline'>purchased | ||
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under the powers of the said Act , and which shall be situated within any</hi><!-- underlined in red --> | |||
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<add><hi rend='underline'>one</hi><!-- underlined in red --></add> <hi rend='underline'>of the respective Counties therein</hi><!-- underlined in red --> <add><hi rend='underline'>in that behalf</hi></add><!-- underlined in red --> <hi rend='underline'>referred to ,</hi><!-- underlined in red --> <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 --> <hi rend='underline'>to wit the Counties of Middlesex , Essex ,</hi><!-- underlined in red --> | |||
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<hi rend='underline'>Kent and Surrey</hi><!-- underlined in red --> as <hi rend='superscript'>+</hi><!-- added in pencil, a double-verticle bar cross --> 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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a conveyance thereof & from time to time to appoint others<!-- symbol ? --> in the stead of those who shall | |||
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die or resign And it is hereby enacted & declared that the inheritance in fee simple of such | |||
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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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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 <hi rend='underline'>And whereas We the said</hi><!-- underlined in red --> | |||
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under construction ...
To all to whom these presents shall come greeting —
Whereas in & by the Statute passed on the seventh day of July in the
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 pieces or pieces of ground [therein and herein after described] situate lying and being so
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 carefully 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 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 & 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
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