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Section LIV Proviso where several Tallies bear Date the same Day.

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

Paying subsequent Orders, if first demanded, no undue Preference, if sufficient reserved to satisfy preceding Orders.

Provided always and bee it hereby declared That if it shall happen that several Tallies of Loan or Orders for Payment as aforesaid beare date or bee brought the same day to the Auditor of the Receipt to bee registred then it shall bee interpreted X1 noe undue preference which of those hee enters first soe hee enters them all the same day. Provided alsoe that it shall not bee interp[re]ted any undue preference to incurr any penalty in point of payment if the Auditor direct and the Clerk of the Pells record and the Teller pay subsequent orders of the persons that come and demand their money and bring their orders in their course soe as there may bee soe much money reserved as will satisfie precedent orders which shall not bee otherwise disposed but kept for them (interest upon Loan being to cease from the time the money is soe reserved and kept in Bank for them.)

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Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: to O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]