Agreements between Her Majesty's CoMMibsiONERS for the 

 Exhibition of 1851 and the Horticultural Society for 

 the Lease to the Society of a Portion of the Commis- 

 sioners' Estate at Kensington Gore. 



I. — Original Agreement. 

 Articles of Agreement made this S4th day of July in the P 

 year of our Lord 1860, between the Commissioners for the Exhi- 

 bition of 1851 (hereinafter referred to as "The Commissioners"), 

 of the one part, and the Horticultural Society of London (herein- 

 after referred to as " The Society/') of the other part. Whereas 

 the Society being desirous of obtaining a suitable area in or near 

 tlie metropolis for an ornamental garden, in which they may 

 exhibit and display the progress of Horticulture, and to which 

 they propose to admit not only their members and the holders of 

 transferable tickets to which certain life members are and will be 

 entitled, and also the holders of such debentures as are herein- 

 after mentioned (without any payment), but other visitors on pay- 

 ment (by such visitors) of fees for admission, have applied to the 

 Commissioners for a lease for that purpose of a portion of their 

 estate at Kensington Gore hereinafter described ; and the Com- 

 missioners, being satisBed that the intended operations of the 

 Society will extend the influence of the Science and Art of Horti- 

 culture upon productive industry, and that the formation of the 

 said garden will be beneficial to their neighbouring property, have 

 agreed to grant such lease on the terms hereinafter appearing. 

 And whereas it has been agreed that certain earthworks for 

 altering the levels of the land to be demised, as well for the per- 

 manent improvement thereof as for facilitating the operations of 

 the Society, and certain arcades on the boundaries of the said 

 land which as to some of them or some part or parts thereof shall 

 be leased to the Society as hereinafter mentioned, and as to 

 others or other part or parts of such arcades, shall or maybe used 



