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A. D. 1759. Anno tricefimo tertio Georgii IL C. 30, 485 Court or Courts of Law or Equity whatfoever : And all Pcrfons fhall and may have Recourfe to theandRccourfemriy be bad fame gratisy and take Copies thereof, paying for every Copy, not exceeding two hundred Words, thereto, and O pies taken four Pence, and fo proportionably for any greater Number of Words : And immediately on fuch OnVavment, and Entry payment, and Entry of fu^h VerJiiSls, Judgments, Sentences, Decrees, Orders, and other Pro- made as afoi'cfaia, the ceedings of the faid Court aad Juries, and of fi^ch Receipt or Receipts of the faid Cafliier or Ca- R;ght and Proteny of fliiers as aforefaid, all the Eftate, Right, Title, Intereft, Ufe, Truft, Property, Claim and De- the Prem.fTfs is -o ve/t mand in Law and Eqijity, of thePerfon or Perfons for whofe Ufe fuch Money (hall be paid, jp, >j«^;h^^ Corporation abfo- to, and out of the faid Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments and Premiffes, fhall veft in the faid ^* Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens, or the Perfon or Perfons to whom the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the faid City, in Common Council aflembled, Tnall order, dire£l or appoint fuch Conveyances to be made; and they (hall refpectively be deemed in Law to be in the actual Seifin or Pofl'effion thereof, to all Intents and Purpofes whatfoever, as fully and effectually, as if every . Perfon, having any Eftate in the Premifles, had actually conveyed the fame to them by Leafe and Releafe, Bargain ap.d Sale inrolled, Feoftrnent with Livery and Seifin, Fine and Recovery, or any other legal Conveyance whatfoever : And fuch Payment fhall not only bar all Right, Title, Inte- reft, Cl.tim and Demand, of the Perfon or Perfons to whofe Ufe fuch Payment was made, but alfo fhall extend to and be deemed and conftrucd to bar the Dower and Dov/ers of the Wife and Wives of fuch Perfon and Perfons, and all Filiates Tail, in Reverfion or Remainder, againft the IflTue and Ufues of fuch Perfon and Perfons, and every Perfon claiming under them, as effedtually as a Fine and Recovery, or either of them, WQuld do, if levied or fuffered by the proper Parties in due Form of Law. VL Provided always. That it (hall and may be lawful for the faid Court of Mayor and Alder- The Purcliafe moiey, men, after fucn Payment into the Bank and Entry as aforefaiJ, upon the Petition of any Perfon or "P°". Petition of the Perfons in whom the legal Eftate, in PofTeifion, of fuch Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, was be'pTaceTout in'th^^^ vefted at the Time of the faid Payment into the Bank, to place out or inveff, or to caufe to be public Funds, &c. placed out or inverted, fuch Sum or Sums of Money, or any Part thereof, in fome of the publick Funds, or on Government Security, at Intereft, in the Names of the Chamberlain, Town Clerk, '" the Names of the and Comptrolkr of the Chamber of the faid City for the Time being; and the fame {hall, as foon c^rk^'^ll Com""^^"]! as conveniently may be, after the Death or Removal of any of them, be by the Survivors or Sur- for "the Time "bdng" " vivor of them, transferred into the Names of the Chamberlain, Town Clerk, and Comptroller of 'the Chamber of the faid City for the Time being ; and fo from time to time, as often as any one of 'the faid Officers ftiall happen to die or be removed, in Trufl, to transfer and aflign the fame to .'fuch Perfon or Perfons to whom the Premifles fhall belong, on their executing proper Conveyances thereof; and in the mean Time, in Truft, to pay the Intereft and Dividends arifing therefrom to inTruft, topaythelnte. fuch Perfon or Perfons fo in PofTeffion of the faid Premifles as aforefaid. '^'^ ^^^ D.videndj to the faid Parties. VII. Provided always, and it is hereby ena»£led. That all and every Perfon or Perfons who would The Perfons intitled to be intitled to recover the mefne Profits of the Premifles againft the Perfon or Perfons io in PofTeflion, "cover the rnefne Pio- in cafe the fame had not been fo conveyed to, or vefted in the faid Mayor and Commonalty, and f "inft ^he PeT'ifs" Citizens, or other Perfon or Perfons as aforefaid, fhall be intitled to recover the Sum or Sums to po'f^^ljjo^^^airintitk'd to arife from all Interefts and Dividends as aforefaid, by A£lion of Debt, or otherwife, againft the recover the intereft Mo- Perfon or Perfons who fhall receive the fame ; and the Governor and Company of the Bank of ney, and the Bank is to England are herv.by authorifed and required to obey fuch Order and Orders, from time to time, as °^^y any Order of the fhall be made by the faid Court of Mayor and Aldermen, for the Payment of fuch Sum or Sums Court made for that (-i,T D^u c ■ 1 1/- I-' ni- ii-in •• r Purpofe : but the City ^s OX Money, or any rart thereof, m order to the fame benig mvelted in publick Securities as afore- not to be difturbed in faid : And the faid Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens, or other Perfon or Perfons to whom the their PofTeflion, iaid PremiflTes fhall, by the Mayor, Aldermen and Commons of the faid City, in Common Council ^(Tembled, be ordered or appointed to be conveyed as aforefitid, fhall be quieted in the Seiim and Pofleffion of the Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, for which fuch Money fhall be fo paid as aforefaid, and fhall not be anfwerable or accountable, in any Court of Law or Equity, for the "<»■ is accountable for Money fo depofited and placed out as aforefaid, any otherwife than according to the Tenor, Pur- the Money placed out aa port and true Meaning of this A6t. aforefaid. VIII. And^be i^further enaded, That in caj*e any Feme Covert is or fhall be feifed, in Fee Sim- Wficre Feme Covert is pie, or ir "'" " '^ mants fo Perfons as Intermeddling of her Hufband, the Purchafe money arifing from the Sale of fuch Eftate or Intereft cha7e" mo'ney is'to be"paid of fuch Feme Covert, on the Conveyance of fuch Eftate or Intereft to the faid Mayor and Com- to her Attorney, in monalty and Citizens, or other Perfon or Perfons as aforefaid, fliall be paid to fuch Perfon --r T'"'"^' to be reinvefted Perfons as fhe fhall, by Writing under her Hand, nominate to receive the fame, in Truft, to be f^^°j'^5'^^^;"/^^^^^^^^ reinvefted in Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, to be conveyed and fettled for fuch Ufes, Eftate ^"^^ "* and Intereft, as the faid Feme Covert had in the Premifles fo purchaf^d by the faid Mayor and Com- monalty and Citizens, or other P rfon or Perfons as aforefaid. IX. And be it further enaded by the Authority aforefaid. That the Principal Money arifing from "^^^ '^""^y !'s>=»^f'^ "» the Sale of any Houfes, Ediflces, Lands, Tenements a,d Hereditaments, which ftialf be purchafed '^f .°^ ^t ^ for the Purpofes contained in this Aa of any Body Corporate or Collegiate, Corporation Aggregate BodTc!, L° °'^°'"*' "=- or