Rebuilding of London Act 1666

XXIV. Houses improved by opening Streets to pay to Losers of Ground.

Jury impannelled as aforesaid may assess.; Monies so assessed to be paid to Chamberlain; whose Receipt to be a Discharge; and who is to be accountable for the same.; Money so raised how employed.

And forasmuch as the Houses now remaining and to be rebuilt will receive more or lesse advantage in the value of their Rents by the liberty of Air and free recourse for Trade and other Conveniencies by such Regulation and Inlargements It is alsoe enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That in case of refusall or incapacity as aforesaid of the Owners or others interessed of or in the said Houses to agree and compound with the said Lord Maior Aldermen and Coo[m]mons for the same, Thereupon a Jury shall and may be impanneled in manner and forme aforesaid to judge and assesse upon the Owners and others interessed of and in such Houses such competent summe and summes of Money with respect to their severall Interests in consideration of such improvement and melioration as in reason and good conscience they shall thinke fitt, And all summes of Money that shall be soe assessed and raised as aforesaid shall be paid to the Chamberlaine of the Citty of London for the time being who is hereby enabled [X1 from time to time] to receive and recover the same by Action at Law and whose Receipte shall be a good Discharge to such Owners or others interessed, And who is hereby appointed to receive and pay and be accomptable for the same according to such Directions as shall from time to time be given him by the said Lord Maior Aldermen and Coo[m]mons And the Money soe raised shall be wholly imployed towards payment and satisfaction of such Houses and Ground as shall be converted into Streets Passages Markets and other publique places aforesaid, And such satisfaction soe given or tendered and refused as aforesaid shall divest the Propriety Estate and Interest of the respective Owners and others haveing Interest of and in such parcells of Ground soe to be taken and imployed for the uses aforesaid by vertue of this Act, Which shall be and are hereby actually setled and invested in the said Lord Maior Coo[m]monalty and Citizens of the Citty of London and their Successors in like manner as other the Coo[m]mon streetes and Highwayes within the said Citty.

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X1 interlined on the Roll.