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Commissioners may direct tenants and lands to be assigned for payment of annual instalments.
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21. Provided always, . . . that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said commissioners under this Act to order and direct that any tenant or tenants of any lands belonging to any such school, for which any such sum or sums shall be so advanced, together with the lands occupied by such tenant or tenants, shall be assigned over to such person or persons as shall be named for that purpose by the lord high treasurer or commissioners for executing the office of lord high treasurer or any three of them for the time being; and from thenceforth, until such tenant or tenants, and the land so occupied by such tenant or tenants, shall be re-assigned, such tenant or tenants having received notice of such assignment shall be bound to pay his or their rent or rents to such person or persons as if a regular attornment had been executed; and it shall and may be lawful for such person or persons to recover any such rent, by distress, ejectment, or otherwise, as the person or persons entitled to the said rent might lawfully do; and all and every sum and sums so received by such person or persons, his and their reasonable costs being first deducted, shall by him or them be paid into the office of the said receiver general, to be applied in the manner and for the purposes aforesaid.
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