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No sum to be advanced towards such erection, &c. until an estimate has been transmitted to and approved by his Majesty, and the voluntary subscriptions have been actually paid, or security for payment given.
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12. Provided always, that no such order shall be issued as aforesaid through any of his Majesty’s principal secretaries of state authorizing the expenditure of money for the erection, purchase, or hiring of any such new church or chapel or hospital as aforesaid, or for the purchase or hiring of any such new burial ground as aforesaid, unless and until such consul general or consul shall first have transmitted to his Majesty, through one of his Majesty’s principal secretaries of state, the plan of such intended church or chapel, hospital, or burial ground, with an estimate, upon the oath of some one or more competent person or persons, stating the probable expense of and incident to the erection, purchase, or hiring of any such church, chapel, hospital, or burying ground as aforesaid, and unless and until his Majesty shall have signified through one of his said principal secretaries of state, his approbation of the said plan and estimate: Provided also, that no money shall actually be disbursed by any such consul general or consul as aforesaid, for any of the purposes aforesaid, unless and until the money to be raised by any such voluntary subscription as aforesaid be actually paid up and invested in some public or other sufficient security, in the joint names of such consul general or consuls and two trustees appointed for that purpose by the persons subscribing the same, or unless and until two or more of such subscribers shall enter into good and sufficient security to his Majesty, by bond, or otherwise, that amount of such subscriptions shall actually be paid for the purposes aforesaid, by a certain day to be specified in every such bond or security, and which bond or security shall be preserved in the office of such consul general or consul, and shall by him be cancelled and delivered back to the parties entering into the same, their heirs, executors, or administrators, when and so soon as the condition thereof shall be fully performed and satisfied.
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