Continued Thursday 25th. Novr. 1779.

every Court of Aldermen to Approve or Seal such Leases or other
Agreements to which the said Seal had been thentofore usually
Affixed and that the said Committee or any one of the said Commoners
so Attending should be Considered as the Legal Representative of
the Court of Common Council as governors of the aforesaid Royal
Hospitals To the end that their Act and Deed in the said Sealing
and approving such Leases and Agreements as aforesaid should be
to all Intents and purposes as binding as though it was done by and
in the Presence of the Court of Common Council and that the said
Seal should be never used or Affixed to any Instrument whatsoever
but in the Presence and with the Approbation of the said
Committee or some one Member thereof being a Commoner That
at a Court of Lord Mayor and Aldermen holden upon the 7th.
day of March aforesaid It was Resolved that in future all
Business Appertaining to the City and Hospital Seals should be
Transacted in the Court of Lord Mayor Aldermen and Commons
in Common Council Assembled.

That several Leases Pursuant to Contracts previously ent [..]
into by the treasurers and Committees of the respective Hospitals
having been approved and Examined and afterwards subscribed
by the President or treasurers and some of the governors of such
several Hospitals respectively according to the modes of Proceeding
in such Cases which has prevailed for very many Years one of
such Leases from each Hospital was deposited in the Chamberlain's
Office for the said City with a Dockett for each Lease in the usual from
to procure the Seal of the said Hospitals to be put thereto and on
7th. of April 1778 The Clerks of the said Hospitals severally Attended
a Court of Aldermen then held for the said City and such Leases
from the respective Hospitals being brought into that Court and
they being called into the same Court severally requested That such
Seal should be affixed to those Leases as usual after which they
withdrew and being called in again they were informed by the
Town Clerk That he had the Order of that Court to deliver them
Copys of the said Resolutions or Orders of the Court of Common Council