Rebuilding of London Act 1666

XXIII. Satisfaction to Losers of Ground.

Lord Mayor, &c. may issue Warrant to Sheriff to impannel Jury; who are to assess Damages.; Verdict of Jury and Judgment of Lord Mayor, &c. and Payment or Tender of Money adjudged, final.

And to the end that reasonable satisfaction may be given For all such Ground as shall be taken and imployed for the uses aforesaid The Maior Aldermen and Coo[m]mon Councill shall and may treate and agree with the Owners and others interessed therein, And if there shall be any Persons Bodyes Corporate or Collegiate that shall wilfully refuse to treate and agree as aforesaid, or through any disability by Non age Coverture or especiall intaile or other impediment cannot, That in such cases the said Lord Maior and Court of Aldermen are hereby authorized by vertue of this Act to issue out a Warrant or Warrants to the Sheriffes of London who are hereby required accordingly to impannell and returne a Jury before the said Lord Maior and Court of Aldermen, Which Jury upon their Oathes to be administred by the said Lord Maior and Court of Aldermen are to inquire and assesse such Damage and Recompence as they shall judge fitt to be awarded to the Owners and others interested according to their severall and respective Interests and Estates of and in any such Houses or Ground or any part thereof for their respective Interests and Estates in the same as by the said Lord Maior Aldermen and Commons in Coo[m]mon Councill assembled shall be adjudged fitt to be converted for the purposes aforesaid, And such Verdict of the Jury and Judgement of the said Lord Maior and Court of Aldermen thereupon And the payment of the summe or summes of money soe awarded or adjudged to the Owners, and others haveing Estate or Interest or tender and refusall thereof shall be binding to all intents and purposes against the said Partyes their Heires Executors Administrators and Assignes and others claiming any Title or Interest in the said Houses or Ground and shall be a full Authority for the said Lord Maior Aldermen and Coo[m]mons to cause the same to be converted and used for the purposes aforesaid.