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Section IV Grant of Lights for 21 Years, for £600 yearly, to Persons herein named.

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Appropriation of the Money during and after the Term.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That the said Mayor Commonalty and Citizens shall on or before the said Foure and twentieth day of June One thousand six hundred ninety foure demise or grant to Sir Charles Hara Knight John Stanyon Esq[uire] Phillip Neve Esq[uire] and John Lillye Gen'˜ and all other the persons concerned and interested in the Glass Lights co[m]monly called or knowne by the name of Convex Lights a lease or licence for the sole use of the publick Lights to be used in all publick places within the said City and the Liberties thereof for the terme of One and twenty yeares to be computed from the said Foure and twentieth day of June One thousand six hundred ninety foure reserving the yearely rent of Six hundred pounds in such manner and by and under such other articles covenants and agreements for payment of the said rent or makeing void the said lease in default thereof or otherwise as by and between the said Mayor Commonalty and Citizens and the said persons above mentioned are or shall be agreed on for that purpose by certain articles made or to be made in that behalfe Which said yearely su[m]m of Six hundred pounds shall be and is hereby appropriated towards raiseing the said Fond and Payment of the said interest money as aforesaid From and after the determination of which lease all and every the rents profitts and benefitts whatsoever which the said Mayor Co[m]monalty and Citizens shall or may att any time lawfully make by farming or granting licence or licences to any person or persons whatsoever for the lighting the Streets within the said City or the Liberties thereof by such ways and meanes as the said Mayor Commonalty and Citizens shall think most proper shall be and are hereby declared and enacted to be for ever appropriated and applied to and for the uses aforesaid.