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Section III III. His Majesty's Agents for granting Wine Licences may grant Licences not exceeding 21 years, if the Person so long live.X1

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

Rent Half-yearly reserved, but no Fine to be taken.

And be it further, Enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That such persons as shall be commissioned and appointed by his Majestie his Heires or Successors X2as aforesaid shall be and be called his Majesties Agents for granting Licenses for the selling and uttering of Wine by retaile, And his Majesties said Agents are hereby authorized and enabled under their Seale of Office, the same to be appointed by his Majestie to grant License for the selling and uttering of Wines by retaile to any person or persons and for any time or terme not exceeding one and twenty yeares if such person or persons shall soe long live and for such yearely rent as they can or shall agree and thinke fitt, soe as noe Fine be taken for the same But that the rent and summes of money agreed upon and reserved be paid and answered halfe yearely by equall portions dureing the whole terme,

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X1

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

X2

interlined on the Roll.