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a partner in the concern, upon his advancing and paying a pro- 

 portionable part of the expenses necessary for carrying on the 

 same. Now these presents witness that in consideration of the 

 said Richard Trevithick having paid and agreeing by these 

 presents to pay certain bills for machinery ordered by the said 

 Francisco Uville to the amount of 3000. or thereabouts, the 

 particulars of which have been ascertained and settled by and 

 between the said Francisco Uville and Eichard Trevithick, and 

 also in consideration of the services which the said Eichard 

 Trevithick hath already rendered to the said undertaking, and 

 of the future benefits which he is expected to perform for it, the 

 said Francisco Uville for himself, and on the behalf and in the 

 name of the said Pedro Abadia and Jose Arismendi (who will 

 ratify these presents in the capital of Lima as soon as it shall 

 be produced to them, to which the said Uville holds himself 

 bound), Doth, by virtue of the power and authority given to 

 him by his said partners, agree to admit the said Eichard 

 Trevithick to be a member of the said company, and doth 

 hereby declare him to be a member thereof and a partner 

 therein to the extent of 12,000 dollars, and as such, entitled 

 to a share and interest in all the profits and advantages of the 

 company in the proportion which the said sum of 12,000 dollars 

 shall bear to the amount of capital employed by the company 

 in the purposes of their establishment, which proportion will 

 amount as nearly as can now be ascertained to one-fifth of the 

 capital stock embarked in the said concern. 



"FRAN. UVILLE. 



" EICHARD TREVITHICK. 



" 8th January, 1814." 



So Trevithick paid 3000Z. and received nothing for 

 his engineer's work, to be made a partner, contrary to 

 Uville's limit of authority, in a speculation that proved 

 to be not wortb a farthing. 



The following is a summary of the detail invoice of 

 engines and machinery which left London for Lima in 

 September, 1814, in charge of Uville, just fifteen months 

 after his landing at Falmouth in search of Trevithick : 



