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of the benefits above describd as they shall think proper.
We the undersignd Robt Brown Naturalist Wm Daniel landscape & figure draughtsman Ferdinand Bauer Botanic draughtsman Peter Good Gardiner & John Allen miner in testimony of our concurrence in the Above terms of engagement & as a Pledge for our Obedience to their Lordships instructions & Commands during the time we shall be in their Lordships employ have affixd signd our names to this agreement engagement on the day of in the year of our Lord 1801.
Deliverd this undertaking signd by all the Parties & witnessed by myself to Mr Nepean at the Admiralty Augt 21 1801. He told me he could send it to the Navy Board.
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a Plan much resembling this was adopted by the French for the Payment of their servants who had been with the army in Egypt. See [indecipherable] 139 19 [indecipherable] ann 10 1802