JB/117/181/001

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Hodges Contract

Memorandum of a Contract or Agreement made this day of March
one thousand eight hundred between Benjamin Hodges of Milbank in the Liberty
of Westminster Distiller and Jeremy Bentham of Lincolns Inn in the County
of Middlesex and also of Queen Square in the City of Westminster Esquire.—

Whereas under and by virtue of an Act passed in the 34th Year of
his Majestys Reign and intituled an Act for erecting a Penitentiary House or
Houses for confining and imploying Convicts (34 G.3.c.84 7th of July 1794) power
are given to the Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being to fix upon a
proper spot of Ground for the purpose of such Penitentiary Establishment as aforesaid
and to appoint a Feoffee or Feoffees by whom and in whose name such spot
shall be purchased and holden in perpertual Succession in Fee simple.—

Identifier: | JB/117/181/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1	1800-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	181	Info in main headings field	hodges contract
Image	001	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	1798 am
Marginals		Paper Producer	frances wright
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1798
Notes public		ID Number	38798
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