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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
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
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