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If 1501 per annum given to librarian for ever, said dignity shall on next avoidance be disposed of as if this act not made,
and then the nomination of librarian shall on vacancy be as the governors and donor appoint, and no necessity to chuse a presbyter.
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VIII. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That if any person or persons shall at any time or times hereafter beflow for the support of the said library-keeper, and the succeding library-keepers, the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds per annum, or more, for ever; that then the aforementioned dignity, conferred on the said library-keeper, shall immediately upon the next avoidance of the said office, be disposed of by such persons, to whom the disposal thereof shall of right belong, in such manner as if this act had never been made: and when any such yearly sum as aforesaid shall be given for the support of the said library-keeper, that then and in that case the nomination of the library-keeper, when the said office shall become vacant after the said gift, shall be in such manner as the said governors and guardians, and such person or persons who gives such annual sums, shall direct and appoint; and that then and in that case the said persons, hereby required and impowered to nominate a library-keeper, shall not be obliged to choose a presbyter, but, from and after the time of the said dignities being separated and taken away from the said office, shall be and are hereby impowered to choose any person otherwise qualified as aforesaid for the said office; any thing in this act contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.
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