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Tenants deriving immediately from archb. shall from it Feb. 1782, for 3 month, have sole power of taking a lease under this act,
and on omission for said 3 months, then right to take such lease devolve on ad tenant;
and on omission in such tenant for 1 month, the said right devolve on third tenant, and so on to under tenants for their respective holding.
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II. Provided also, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the tenant deriving first or immediately under the said archbishop or his successors, his or her executors, administrators, and assigns, shall for the space of three calendar months from the first day of February one thousand seven hundred and eighty two, have the sole and exclusive power of taking any lease or leases from said archbishop or his successors, by virtue of this act, and if he or the, his or her executors, administrators, and assigns, shall omit to take such lease or leases within said time of three calendar months, that then the power of taking such lease or leases from said archbishop or his successors, shall devolve upon the next or second tenant or tenants deriving under the said see, his, her, or their executors, administrators, and assigns, according to his, her, or their respective proportions of the said plot of ground; and in case of a like omission or failure in the second tenant or tenants, his, her, or their executors, administrators, or assigns, for the space of one month, that then the said power of taking such lease or leases from the said archbishop or his successors, shall devolve for a like space of one month on the third tenant or tenants, his, her, or their executors, administrators, or assigns, according to his, her, or their respective proportions as aforesaid, and so on for a like time to the fourth, fifth, sixth, and other intermediate derivative tenants, their executors, administrators, and assigns, so that the first or immediate tenant shall have during three calendar months, an exclusive power of taking such lease of the whole of said plot as is permitted by this act, and each and every other tenant or tenants in gradation, according to their respective proportions in the said plot of ground, shall have during one calendar month each successively an exclusive power of taking such lease and leases as is or are permitted by this act from said archbishop and his successors respectively; and in case the immediate and intermediate derivative tenants, their executors, administrators, and assigns, shall omit to take such lease or leases within the time so successively limited to each of them exclusively, that then the lowest tenant or tenants being in actual possession of any part of said plot, and having a toties quoties clause, his, her, or their executors, administrators, or assigns respectively, shall, during the residue of the term at present subsisting, have the sole and exclusive power of taking such lease or leases for such part or proportion only as he, The, or they shall be in the actual enjoyment, occupation, and possession of at any time that the said archbishop, or any of his successors shall think proper to grant said lease or leases as aforesaid.
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