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Section XLI Proviso where several Tallies bear Date the same Day.

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

Paying subsequent Orders, if first demanded no undue Preference if sufficient reserved to satisfy preceding Orders.

Provided alwayes and it is hereby declared That if it shall happen that severall Orders for payment of the said moneyes beare date the same day that then such of them shall be first entred and preferred in payment which shall be first delivered into the said Office of the Auditor of the Receipt and it shall not be interpretted any undue preference to incurr any penalty in point of payment if the Auditor direct and the Clerke of the Pells record and the Tellers doe pay subsequent Orders of persons that come to demand their money and bring their Orders before such as did not come to demand their money and bring their Orders in their course soe as there be soe much money reserved as will satisfie their Orders which shall not be otherwise disposed but kept for them.