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No Person to be exempt by Letters Patent.
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CCXXIV. And be it further enacted, That no Letters Patent granted by His Majesty or any of His Royal Progenitors, or to be granted by His Majesty to any Person or Persons, Cities, Boroughs, or Towns Corporate, within this Realm, of any Manner of Liberties, Privileges, or Exemptions from subsides, Tolls, Taxes, Assessments, or Aids, shall be construed or taken to exempt any Person or Persons, City, Borough, or Town Corporate or any of the Inhabitants of the same, from the Burden and Charges of any of the said Duties, and all non obstantes in such Letters Patent made or to be made in Bar of this Act, are hereby declared to be void and of none Effect; any such Letters Patent, Grants, or Charters, or any Clause of non obstante, or other Matter Thing therein contained, or any law or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding.
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