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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) powers
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.—

And whereas under and by virtue of the said powers a spot of Ground late
the Estate of the Marquis of Salisbury at Millbank aforesaid hath lately been
purchased in manner aforesaid of the said Marquis by the said Jeremy Bentham
as sole Feoffee appointed by the said Commissioners.—

And whereas in and by the said Act it is further provided that such Feoffee
shall over and above the purchase money for the Owner or Owners of such Ground
make or tender such satisfaction in money or otherwise to the several Occupiers
being Tenants for Years or from Year to Year or at Will of the same or of any
parcel or parcels thereof in respects of their several rights and interests in the
Premises as such Feoffee shall in his discretion think fit.—

And whereas the said Benjamin Hodges is one of the Occupiers of the
said Estate viz: as a Tenant for Years under a Lease granted to Henry Foley
by the said Marquis then Earl of Salisbury which said Lease will expire
on the 25th Day of December in the Year of our Lord on thousand eight hundred
and three—
And

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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