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 pounds of lawful money of England to be employed to and for the use of the said Company and to be levied and recovered as is hereinafter mentioned. AND then the Master Wardens Assistants and Livery so many of them as shall be there present of the said Company lor the time being shall and may forthwith proceed to another election or elections of such other person or persons in his or their stead and shall in all respects from time to time further proceed in like manner as is before appointed.

AND for that it is convenient and necessary that the Master and Wardens of the said Company shall always be sufficiently assisted with the advice and good counsel of the most grave and experienced persons of the said Company IT IS therefore hereby further ORDAINED that all persons who do at this present bear or shall hereafter bear or execute the office or place of Assistants of the said Company shall from henceforth be and remain Assistants to the Master and Wardens for the time being and of the Common Counsel of the said Company. But however shall be and are hereby made amoveable from time to time by the said Master Wardens or Assistants or the greater number of them from being one of the Assistants of the said Company at the will and pleasure of the said Master Wardens and Assistants or the greater number of them who are hereby empowered so to do from time to time and to elect and chuse others in their places and steads as unto them or the greater number of them shall seem most conducible to the welfare and good government of the said Society.

AND it is hereby further ORDAINED that the new Master and Wardens of the said Company and such others as shall hereafter be Master and Wardens when others shall be chosen in their rooms shall continue Assistants to the then Master and Wardens and of the Common Counsel of the said Company until they shall happen to die or be removed from being