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Continued Thursday 25th. Novr. 1779.
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every Court of Aldermen to Approve or Seal such Leases or other
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Agreements to which the said Seal had been thentofore usually
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Affixed and that the said Committee or any one of the said Commoners
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so Attending should be Considered as the Legal Representative of
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the Court of Common Council as governors of the aforesaid Royal
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Hospitals To the end that their Act and Deed in the said Sealing
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and approving such Leases and Agreements as aforesaid should be
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to all Intents and purposes as binding as though it was done by and
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in the Presence of the Court of Common Council and that the said
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Seal should be never used or Affixed to any Instrument whatsoever
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but in the Presence and with the Approbation of the said
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Committee or some one Member thereof being a Commoner That
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at a Court of Lord Mayor and Aldermen holden upon the 7th.
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day of March aforesaid It was Resolved that in future all
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Business Appertaining to the City and Hospital Seals should be
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Transacted in the Court of Lord Mayor Aldermen and Commons
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in Common Council Assembled.
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That several Leases Pursuant to Contracts previously ent
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into by the treasurers and Committees of the respective Hospitals
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having been approved and Examined and afterwards subscribed
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by the President or treasurers and some of the governors of such
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several Hospitals respectively according to the modes of Proceeding
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in such Cases which has prevailed for very many Years one of
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such Leases from each Hospital was deposited in the Chamberlain's
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Office for the said City with a Dockett for each Lease in the usual from
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to procure the Seal of the said Hospitals to be put thereto and on
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7th. of April 1778 The Clerks of the said Hospitals severally Attended
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a Court of Aldermen then held for the said City and such Leases
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from the respective Hospitals being brought into that Court and
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they being called into the same Court severally requested That such
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Seal should be affixed to those Leases as usual after which they
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withdrew and being called in again they were informed by the
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Town Clerk That he had the Order of that Court to deliver them
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Copys of the said Resolutions or Orders of the Court of Common Council
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