Section XVI Treasury not to treat with Persons other than such as shall be nominated by Quarter Sessions; such Persons to have the First Refusal.

Provided alwayes to the end the aforesaid duty may be paid with most ease to the people It is hereby further Enacted That the Lord Treasurer Commissioners of the Treasury or other persons aforesaid shall not within six moneths after the commencement of this Act treat conclude or agree with any person or persons touching the Farming of this Duty upon Beere and Ale in any the respective Countyes or Places of this Realme or Dominions thereof other then with such person or persons as by the Justices of Peace of the said Countyes or Places or the major part of them at their publique Quarter Sessions shall be nominated and appointed in that behalfe, which person or persons is to have the first refusall of any such Farme respectively and may take the same, Any thing in this Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding: