Section III Satisfaction to Owners for Ground taken away.

The Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons to treat and agree with Owners, and in case of wilful Refusal, to impanel a Jury, whose Verdict, and the Judgment of the Mayor and Court of Aldermen thereupon, with Payment of the Money so awarded into the Chamber. Iains Office, shall be binding and conclusive.; Proviso.; Controversies to be decided by the Judges, or Three of them, and in what manner.; Such Decision to be final.; 18 & 19 C. II. c. 7. (19 C. II. c. 2.)

And to the intent that reasonable satisfaction may be given to the Owners and others haveing any Estate or Interest in the Grounds and places which have beene or shall be sett out to be taken and imployed for publique Market places or for the ornament and convenience of the Royall Exchange Guild hall and other places in this Act mentioned or any of them or for inlargeing the said Streets or any part thereof called Pater-noster-row, Warwicke lane Watling streete Candlewike streete Eastcheap Saint Swithins lane Litle Wood-streete Milke streete Tower streete Water lane Rood lane Saint Mary Hill Thames streete Pye corner next unto Smithfeild and Threade needle streete before mentioned; The said Maior Aldermen and Commons shall and may (by themselves or others in that behalfe to be appointed and authorized) treate and agree with the Owners and others interessed therein; And in case of wilfull refusall or any such disabilitie or impediment as in the aforesaid Act are mentioned or other incapacitie whatsoever in the Owners thereof or others interessed therein to treate and agree; The said Maior and Court of Aldermen shall and are hereby authorized and required to cause a Jury to be impannelled in such manner and forme as by the aforesaid Act is directed and appointed, Soe as noe two of the said Jurors soe to be impannelled shall come out of one and the same Ward to adjudge & X1assesse what recompence and satisfaction in every of the cases aforesaid ought to be awarded and given to the respective Owners and others interessed in the Grounds and places soe sett out to be taken and imployed for any the uses or purposes aforesaid; in pursuance of this Act according to such their respective Estates and Interests: And the Verdict of such Jury in that behalfe to be taken, and the Judgement of the said Maior and Court of Aldermen thereupon; and the payment of the money soe awarded or adjudged at or in the Office of the Chamberlaine of the said City of London for the time being to the said Chamberlaine there to remaine by the space of six monethes for the Owners or others interessed therein as aforesaid and after that time to be paid unto them by the said Chamberlaine upon demand (if that within that time there shall not arise any controversie touching the payment thereof by reason of different claimes made thereunto as hereafter is expressed) shall be binding and conclusive to and against the Owners and all others haveing or claimeing or to claime any Estate, Right, Title or Interest of, in, to, or out of the same their Heires Executors Administrators Successors and Assignes and every of them; And shall be a full authority for the said Maior Aldermen and Commons to cause the same to be converted and used to and for the respective uses and purposes aforesaid; And in case any Controversie shall arise betweene any person or persons Bodyes Pollitique or Corporate or his or their Assignes or Under tennants or other persons claimeing any Estate, Right, Title, or Interest in Law or Equity, Trust, Charge or Incumbrance of or in the said Ground soe to be purchased or converted as aforesaid, who shall finde him or themselves agreived for or by reason that the said moneyes soe given in satisfaction for the said Ground is not or shall not be equally or indifferently apportioned according to the true value of his or their Interests in the said Grounds, that then the Justices of the Courts of Kings Bench and Common Pleas and Barons of the Coife of the Court of the Exchequer for the time being or any three or more of them sitting together at the same time and place upon the petition of the said partie or partyes grieved to be preferred to any one of them within six monethes after the said Verdict soe had and given and not after, are hereby authorized to heare and finally determine the same, and to order and award such destribution of the moneyes soe paid unto the Chamberlaine aforesaid to the said person or persons Bodyes Pollitique or Corporate respectively, according to his and their severall and respective Interests in the same in such manner and forme as the said Justices and Barons or any three of them may determine any Differences or Demands which have arisen or shall arise betweene any Landlord or Tennant touching repaireing or rebuilding any of the Houses burnt downe or demolished by the late Fire by vertue of an Act of this present Parlyament entituled An Act for erecting a Judicature for determination of Differences touching Houses burnt downe or demolished by the late Fire which happened in London, According to which Order and Distribution the said summe and summes shall be paid by the said Chamberlaine to the said severall persons respectively.