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RAM MOHAN ROY.
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no animal or living creature shall within or on the said messuage, building, land, tenements, hereditaments and premises, be deprived of life, either for religious purposes or for food.

'And that no eating or drinking (except such as shall be necessary by any accident for the preservation of life) feasting or rioting be permitted therein or thereon.

'And that in conducting the said worship or adoration no object, animate or inanimate that has been, or is, or shall hereafter become, or be recognised, as an object of worship, by any man or set of men, shall be reviled or slightingly or contemptuously spoken of or alluded to, either in preaching, praying or in the hymns, or other mode of worship that may be delivered or used in the said messuage or building.

'And that no sermon, preaching, discourse, prayer or hymn be delivered, made or used in such worship but such as have a tendency to the promotion of the contemplation of the Author and Preserver of the Universe, to the promotion of charity, morality, piety, benevolence, virtue and the strengthening the bonds of union between men of all religious persuasions and creeds.

'And also that a person of good repute and well-known for his knowledge, piety and morality be employed by the said Trustees as a resident superintendent and for the purpose of superintending the