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Section XVI Chamberlain, &c. to give a Note of what is owing to Orphans, &c.

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

Debt transferrable.; Transfer to be registered.; Assignce entitled, and may in like manner assign.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That the Chamberlain and Co[m]mon Serjeant of the said City shall upon request give unto every of the said Orphans and Creditors and to their respective Executors Administrators or Assigns a Bill or Note in writeing of the Principal Debt and Interest oweing to such Orphan or Creditor and to their respective Executors Administrators or Assigns And that any person or persons to whom any money shall be payable by virtue of this Act may by writeing under his or their respective Hands and Seales assign and transferr his her or their Right or Interest in and X1by such moneys payable by vertue of this Act or any parte thereof to any person or persons whatsoever which being entred or registred in a Book to be kept by the said Mayor and Court of Aldermen for that purpose (which they are hereby enjoyned to keep) and the Note or Bill of the said Debt soe given as aforesaid being delivered upp to the Officer appointed by the said Court of Aldermen for that purpose who shall thereupon give his Note or Bill in writing of the Debt so assigned to the party or parties to whom such Assignment shall bee made such Assignee or Assignees his or their Executors Administrators or Assignes shall be entituled to the benefitt thereof and of all moneys payable thereon and such Assignee or Assignees may in like manner assign again and so toties quoties and afterwards it shall not be in the power of any such person or persons who have made such Assignments to make void release or discharge the same or the moneys thereby assigned or any part thereof.

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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]