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Compensation to be made to Persons deprived of their Offices.
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XX. ‘And whereas it is reasonable and fit that Compensation should be made to Persons deprived of their Offices, or of any lawful Fees and Emoluments, by virtue of this Act;’ be it therefore enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lord High Treasurer or Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury for the Time being, or any Three or more of them, by Warrant under his or their Hand or Hands, to order or direct that such annual or other Compensation shall be made to the said Persons for such Loss as they will respectively sustain by reason of the Provisions of this Act as shall be just and reasonable; and such Compensation shall be issued and paid and payable out of and charged and chargeable upon the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: Provided always, that an Account of all such Compensations shall within Fourteen Days next after the same shall be so granted be laid upon the Table of the House of Commons, if Parliament shall be then assembled, or if Parliament shall not be then assembled, within Fourteen Days after the Meeting of Parliament then next following.
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