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 the same all such reasonable sums of money for taxes tallages and other impositions as well ordinary as extraordinary as shall he thought good and reasonable to be assessed or imposed upon him or them by the said Master Wardens and Assistants or the more part of them for the time being for all such needful affairs causes and things whatsoever of and for the honour common state wealth and good of the said Company of the said Mystery according to their abilities and every one that shall refuse to pay and discharge the same portion of money which shall be so reasonably assessed rated or taxed upon shall forfeit and pay to the Master Wardens and Commonalty such sum and sums of money not exceeding Forty shillings as shall be assessed for that purpose for every time that he or they shall so refuse contrary to the true meaning of this ordinance to be levied and disposed of in such manner and to such uses as is hereinafter mentioned.

ALSO that every year yearly the Master Wardens and Assistants of the said Society for the time being or the greater number of them may elect and chuse such five persons free of the said Company as they shall think fit to be Stewards of the said Company who shall have and bear the Title and Office of Stewards of the said Company and shall find and provide at their own mutual and equal costs and charges one competent and sufficient Feast or Dinner as the Master and Wardens and Court of Assistants or the greater number of them for the time being shall direct and appoint which shall be called the Stewards Dinner and to be kept at the Common Hall of the said Company or such other place as to the said Master Wardens and Court of Assistants shall seem meet. And always on such day yearly and every year as the Lord Mayor of the City of London is or shall be presented at Westminster commonly called Lord Mayor's Day which Dinner or Feast shall be for the Master Wardens Assistants and Livery of the said