Patent of Robert Phillips : curing smoky chimneys, &c.

  • Phillips, Robert.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Patent of Robert Phillips : curing smoky chimneys, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Phillips Infallible Cure for Smoky Chimneys, §c. or privileges have been already granted as aforesaid, stall distincly vse and practice their several inventions by them invented and found out, according to the true intentent and meaning of the same respective Letters Patents and of these presents. Provided likewise, nevertheless, and these our Letters Patents are vpon this express condition, that if the said Robert 5 Phillips, his executors or administrators, or any person or persons which shall or may, at any time or times hereafter during the continuance of this grant, have or claime any right, title, or interest, in law or equity, of, in, or to the power, priviledge, and authority of the sole vse and benefit of the said Inven¬ tion hereby granted, shall make any transferr or assignment, or any pretended 10 transferr or assignment of this grant, have or claim any right, title, or interest, in law or equity, of, in, or to the power, priviledge, and authority of the sole vse and benefit of the said Invention hereby granted, shall make any transferr or assignement, or any pretended transferr or assignement of the said liberty and priviledge, or any share or shares of the benefit or profit thereof, or shall 15 declare any trust thereof, to or for any number of persons exceeding the number of five, or shall open, or cause to be opened, any book or books for publick subscriptions to be made by any number of persons exceeding the number of five, in order to the raising any sume or sumes of money vnder pretence of carrying on the said liberty or priviledge hereby granted, or shall 2Q by him or themselves, his or their agents or servants, receive any sume or sumes of money whatsoever, of any number of persons exceeding in the whole the number of five, for such or the like intents or purposes, or shall presume to act as a corporate body, or shall divide the benefit of these our Letters Patents, or the liberty and priviledges hereby by vs granted, into any number 25 of shares exceeding the number of five, or shall committ or do, or procure to be committed or done, any act, matter, or thing whatsoever during such time as such person or persons shall have any right or title, either in la\v or equity, in or to the said premisses, which would be contrary to the true intent and meaning of a certain act of Parliament made in the sixth year of the reigne 30 of our late Royal Father King George the First, intituled (an Act for the better securing certain powers and priviledges intended to be granted by His Maiestie by two charters for assurance of ships and merchandizes at sea, and for lending money vpon bottomry, and for restraining several extravagant and vnwarrantable practices therein menconed), if these our Letters Patents 35 had not been or in case the said power, priviledge, or authority shall at any time hereafter become vested in, or in trust for, more than the number of five persons or their representatives at any one time (reckoning executors or adminsitrators as and for the single person whom they represent, as to such