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Section LXXIII Persons having their Orders first entered to be paid first, and so successively.

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And all and every person and persons shall be paid in course according as their Orders shall stand entred in the said Registers Booke of the Receipt soe as the person Native or X1Forreigner his or her Executors Administrators and Assignes who shall have his or her Warrant or Order Warrants or Orders first entred in the said Booke of Registry in the Exchequer as aforesaid shall be taken and accounted as the first person to bee paid upon the said Fower hundred and twelve thousand nine hundred twenty five pounds fowerteene shillings, and six pence to come in by vertue of this Act and he she or they that shall have his her or their Warrants or Orders Warrant and Order next entred shall be taken and accounted the second person to be paid and soe successively and in course

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