NEW CHARTER AND AGREEMENTS. 



outlay, such parties respectively or party shall haTe no claim or demand ^^J'"g'[J|,g'"* 

 against the other of them or against the gardens or against the receipts from additional 

 the gardens save and except as hereinafter mentioned, viz., that with a view e:^ept as ' 

 to compensate such parties respectively or party in some degree for such 

 additional outlay, the following alterations shall be made in the said recited 

 agreement, and in the lease to be granted pursuant thereto, yiz. : — 



4. The 14tli Clause of the said recited agreement shall be altered and Alteration 



^ on Clause 



amended as follows, viz., out of the gross amount of the receipts ft'om the (u) in first 



agreement 



gardens there shall be first retamed by the Society such a sum as shall fi'om as to disposal 



of receipts 



time to time be allowed by the Committee mentioned in Clause 15 of the tIz., i. Ne- 

 said agreement in respect of the expenses of the Chiswiok Garden, or other SpSes 

 garden in lieu thereof, to be kept np for experimental or scientific puiposes, 

 the reasonable expenses of the management of the Society, including the 

 expenses of the Exliibition on the demised gTounds (or elsewhere with the 

 consent of the Commissioners), of flowers, fruits, and other articles, bands, 

 police, and other general and necessary expenses, and also sums to be given 

 for medals, or prizes for competition for articles shown at such Exhibition, 

 and farther in respect of the cmTent expenses of the gardens to be laid out 

 and constmcted under the said agreement, including the repairs to be done 

 by the Society, costs of insurance, and any structm'al or other improvements or 

 ornaments which the Committee may think fit, which allowance shall fi'om 

 time to time proceed and be made upon a fair and reasonable basis, and 

 so as to keep and maintain the said gardens, and all the buildings, improve- 

 ments, and ornaments upon and belonging thereto in thoroughly good 

 order and condition : secondly, there shall be then retained by the Society out 5. interest 



1 1 1 1 deben- 



of such receipts the amount which may be from time to time payable by the tmes both 



for the 



Societv in respect of interest not exceedmg S per cent, per annum on the sum £i0.mo and 



. . „ , n 1 , ; , T , ,1 T 1 ^10,000 bor- 



of £40,000 originally borrowed or agreed to be boiTowed by them on deben- rowed, 

 tui-es as aforesaid, and on any fiu-ther sum or sums they may borrow and 

 exjjend in accordance with Clause 1 of this agreement not exceeding £10,000 

 or on so much of the original and additional sums as for the time being may 

 have been raised and shall not have been paid off ; and, thirdly, there shall *„„t'''""™''' 

 then be paid by the Society to the said Commissioners as rent the yearly sum 

 or sums hereinafter in that behalf mentioned, if the receipts shall be adequate 

 for such payment, after retaining to the Society the sums authorised to be 

 retained by them under the fu-st and second heads of the present clause, but 

 otherwise such a sum only as shall be equal from year to year to the residue 

 of the receipts over and above the sums so in precedence, viz., if the Commis- 

 sioners shall limit their outlay tmder Clause 2 of the said recited agreement 

 to £50,000, then the yearly sum of £2145 only, but if under Clause 2 of this 

 agreement they shall expend a larger sum, then an addition shall be made to 

 such rent at the rate of £4 5s. for every additional £100 which the Commis- 

 sioners shall think fit to expend in accordance with that clause, not exceeding 

 £10,000 in the whole. And if there shall remain any surplus over and above of surplus. 



