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Section XX Orphans hereafter may take Advantage of this Act;

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

and Mayor &c. may order Chamberlain to pay, on Notice.; Persons to whom Money paid, to give a Discharge.

Provided always and be it enacted That when and as often as any application shall bee made to the said Mayor and Court of Aldermen for the time being on behalfe of any Orphan or Orphans of the said City by the Executors or Administrators of the Father of such Orphans to pay in and lodge any su[m]m or su[m]ms of money of or belonging to such Orphan or Orphans in the said Chamber and to have the benefitt of the said provision hereby made it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said Mayor and Court of Aldermen and they are hereby impowered and directed to order the Chamberleyne of the said City for the time being to pay off the like sum to such person or persons entituled to the said yearely payments as aforesaid as they think fitt not being Orphans under the Age of One and twenty yeares and giveing Three months notice to or for the person or persons soe to be paid off and discharged att the end of which Three months upon payment or tendring of the said moneys due for Interest and Principal too or for the person or persons to whom such notice shall bee given according to the provision hereby made att the Office of the said Chamberlaine in Guildhall London then and from thenceforth the annual su[m]m or su[m]ms of money payable to such person or persons to whom such notice payment or tender shall be made or given shall cease and determine and the same shall become due and payable to or for the use of such Orphan or Orphans who shall have paid in the moneys for the same and shall be registred accordingly and be assignable as aforesaid Neverthelesse the moneys soe tendred shall be paid to such person and persons upon their demand of the same and assigneing X1and giveing a discharge for the same it being hereby enacted and declared that the provision hereby made shall be and remaine a perpetual Stock or Fond for the benefitt of the Orphans of the said City successively.

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X1

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