Section XXIX Money retained for City Charges for Seven Years, not exceeding £2,000 yearly.

And whereas the residue of the Revenue belonging to the said Mayor and Co[m]monalty and Citizens over and above what is hereby appointed to and for the use of the said Orphans and Creditors will not be sufficient until further improvements can be made to answer and defray the expences necessary for supporting the Government and publick charges of the said City Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that for the space of Seven yeares co[m]mencing from the nine and twentieth day of September last past it shall be lawful for the Mayor and Court of Aldermen to retaine and apply and for the Chamberlaine to issue and pay towards the necessary expences or charges any su[m]m or su[m]ms not exceeding in the whole the su[m]m of Two thousand pounds yearely out of the moneys hereby appointed to and for the use of the said Orphans and Creditors as aforesaid Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.