NEW CHARTER AND AGREEMENTS. 



aries of the said land which as to some of them or some part or parts thereof Preamble 



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shall be leased to the Society as hereinafter mentioned, and as to others or 

 other part or parts of such arcades, shall or may be used by the Society as 

 hereinafter mentioned, and may be available for other improvements on the 

 estate of the Commissioners, and which may be connected with buildings 

 which the Conunissioners may hereafter cause or allow to be erected on their 

 estate, should be formed and erected at the espense of the Commissioners, and 

 that the other works upon the ground to be demised should be constructed 

 and done at the expense of the Society. And whereas the land proposed to 

 be demised as aforesaid is that piece or parcel of land at Kensington Gore, in 

 the county of Middlesex, containing 20 acres or thereabouts, the abuttals and 

 boundaries of which, and the sites of the proposed erections thereon or 

 connected therewith, are particularly delineated on the plan hereunto annexed, 

 and the Commissioners have caused to be commenced the earthworks 

 hereinbefore mentioned. And whereas the Society, for the pm-pose of 

 defraying the exi^ense of the works to be done by them on the premises to be raised by 



Debentures 



demised, have entered into engagements for raising the sum of £40,000 by 

 debentures, the residue of the sum of £50,000 (the amount agreed to be 

 expended by the Society) having been obtained by them by donations and 

 fees on the admission of Members for life. Now it is hereby mutually cove- 

 nanted and agreed between the Commissioners and the Society, each covenant- 

 ing for all matters and things to be done and forborne by them respectively as 

 follows : — 



1. The Society shall, immediately after the execution of the earthworks The Society 

 which have been commenced as aforesaid, enter upon the said land for the giirden, ' 

 purpose of laying out and constructing, and will forthwith lay out and approvlf of 

 construct an ornamental garden, with walks, trees, shrubs, teiTaces, steps, ' 



fountains, band-houses, statues, and vases, and in addition thereto with a 

 conservatory or winter garden at the north end. The Society may also erect 

 on the said land such oflRces and other buildings as may be necessary and 

 convenient for the caixying on the affairs and business of the Society. The 

 whole of the above-mentioned works to be done to the satisfaction and subject 

 to the approval of the Commissioners ; and the said ornamental garden, with 

 the works coimected therewith, to be in a state fit for opening to visitors 

 within six months after the Commissioners shall have finished the arcades 

 hereinafter referred to. The Society will exjiend in laying out and con- 

 structing the said garden, with the works and buildings aforesaid, a smn of 

 not less than £50,000. 



2. The Commissioners, simultaneously with the progress of the works iiecom- 

 hereby undertaken by the Society, will at their own cost enclose the said to enclose 

 gi'ound with arcades of an architectm-al character, as indicated in the said arcades, &c. 

 plan. As respects the upper arcades coloured orange in the said plan, such lessUian"' 

 arcades shall be substantial and fini.shed buildings. But as respects the 

 central and lower arcades, colom-ed blue and yellow in the said plan, the same 



