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whatsoever, as counsel shall advise for the effectuating all and every the purposes aforesaid. In witness whereof, the said parties to these presents have hereunto set their hands and seals, the day and year first above written.

Order of court, Friday 29th July 1785.

Whereas the six clerks of this court have entered into an agreement, 'That they will, in case the court shall approve thereof, from and after the first day of Michaelmas term next, execute such part of the business of their office as shall be their duty to transact, in one common room in some part of the buildings lately erected in Lincoln's-Inn, and now commonly called or known by the name of the Six Clerks Office; and that, for the more regular and effectual dispatch of the business of the said office, one or more of the said six clerks, as the business shall require, will give daily attendance in the said common room; and that every or any six clerk so attending shall enter and sign all bills, answers, replications, proceedings, certificates, copies of proceedings, and other things, as well belonging to his own particular division, as likewise belonging to the divisions of the others of the said six clerks who shall be absent, distinguishing in whose division the same shall be filed and that all the fees, profits, and emoluments whatsoever of the several divisions in the said office (except the fees and profits which shall arise and become due to the said six clerks in respect of the offices of Riding Clerk and Comptroller of the Hanaper, which have been anciently, and still continue to be executed by the said six clerks in rotation) shall be equally divided amongst them; and that the six clerk attending in the said common room shall, from time to time, take and receive all the fees and profits of all the said six several divisions in the said office, as the same shall become due, by his own proper hands, or by the hands of such other person or persons as he the six clerk so attending shall, from time to time, appoint to receive the same:' and the six clerks having humbly submitted the [552] said agreement to my consideration, I do approve thereof, and do hereby order, that the said agreement be carried into execution; and that the same be observed by the six clerks of this court for the time being. And I do further order, that this order be entered with the register; and that copies thereof be set up in the offices of the six clerks and register of this court.

LL. KENYON, M. R.

The appellant had no notice or knowledge whatever either of the agreement, or of the order above mentioned, till a considerable time after the 27th August following the date of the order, when it seems the six clerks caused notices to be printed and dispersed in the six clerks office, in the words and figures following:

Notice of the six clerks; Samuel Reynardson, William Mitford, Christian Zincke, Nehemiah Winter, William Luther Sewell, and John Kipling, Esquires, the six clerks of the King's Court of Chancery, do hereby give notice to the sworn clerks and waiting clerks in the respective divisions of the office of the said six clerks, that, for better regulating the business of the said office, they the six clerks have entered into the several agreements following, viz. That they will, from and after the first day of Michaelmas term next ensuing the date hereof, execute such part of the business of the said office as shall be the duty of the six clerks to transact, in one common room, in some part of the buildings lately erected in Lincoln's Inn, in the county of Middlesex, and now commonly called or known by the name of The Six Clerks Office, and that one or more of the said clerks, as the business thereof shall require, will give daily attendance in the said common room; and that every or any six clerk so attending shall enter and sign all bills, answers, replications, proceedings, certificates, copies of proceedings, and other things, as well belonging to his own particular division, as likewise belonging to the division of the others of the said six clerks who shall be absent, distinguishing in whose division the same shall be filed. That they the said six clerks will not, at any time after the said first day of Michaelmas term now next ensuing, compound or give credit to any person or persons for any fees or monies which shall become payable to them, or any of them, in respect of their several divisions in the said office; but that the six clerk so attending in the said common room shall, from time to time, take and receive the fees and profits of all the said six several divisions in the said office, as the same shall become due, by his own proper hands, or by the hands of such other person or persons as he