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or elsewhere, and to make allowances to and arrangemts with all or any of the tenants and occupiers for the time being of the sd ppty, and to accept surrenders of leases and tenancies, and to demand, sue for, collect and receive, and give effectual discharges for the rents and profits now due and henceforth to become due in respect of the same: And to take and use all lawful proceedings and means, by distress or action or otherwise, for recovering and receiving the sd rents, and for enforcing the performance of any covenants or agreemts which the respive lessees or tenants may be liable to perform, and for evicting and ejecting or recovering damages from tenants and occupiers making default in paymt of such rents or in performance of such covenants or agreemts, and for obtaining and retaining possion of all or any of the premes occupied by any lessees or tenants making such default.

xv. To commence, prosecute, or enforce, or to defend, and defend answer, or oppose all actions and other legal proceedings legal proceedings. and demands touching any of the matters afsd, or any other matters in which I am or may hereafter be interested or concerned, and also, if the sd [attorneys or] attorney shall think fit, to compromise, refer to arbitration, abandon, submit to judgment, or become non-suited in any such action or proceeding as afsd.

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and compromise.

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to debtors.

XVI. To adjust, settle, compromise, or submit to arbitration any accounts, debts, claims, and demands, disputes and matters touching any of the matters afsd, or any other matters which are now subsisting or may hereafter arise between me and any other pson or psons, or between my sd [attorneys or] attorney and any other pson or psons.

XVII. To compound and accept part in lieu of and in pound with satisfon for the whole of, or compromise any debt or sum of allowances money now or hereafter owing or payable to me, or any other claim or demand which I have or may have against any pson or psons, or to grant an extension of time for the paymt or satisfon thof, upon such terms as may be deemed proper, either with or without taking secy for the same, or

otherwise to act with respect thto as my sd [attorneys or]

attorney may think expedient.

XVIII. To concur in doing any of the acts, matters, and To concur with joint things hinbefore mentioned in conjunction with any other pson or psons interested in the premes.

owners.

XIX. To vote at the meetings of any co or cos, and other- To vote at wise to act as my proxy or representative in respect of any meetings. shares now held, or which may hereafter be acquired by me therein, and for that purpose to sign and execute any proxies or other instruments in my name and on my behalf.

xx. To appoint and employ any agents, overseers, re- To employ ceivers, or other psons at such remuneration by way of agents. salary, commission, or otherwise, as the sd attorney may think proper, and the same from time to time to dismiss and discharge, and any others to appoint or employ in their stead.

XXI. AND generally to act as my attorney or agent at To act generally. afsd, in relation to the premes and all other matters in which I may be interested or concerned, and on my behalf to execute and do all instrumts, acts, matters, and things as fully and effectually in all respects as I myself could do if personally present.

substitutes.

XXII. To substitute and appoint from time to time one or To appoint more attorneys or attorney under [them or] him, the sd [attorneys or] attorney, with the same or more limited powers, and such substitute or substitutes at pleasure to remove and another or others to appoint.

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XXIII. PROVD always that this present power of attorney Proviso shall not extend to revoke or make void or affect keeping former any alive or other power or powers of attorney by me at any time powers of htofore given or delegated to any other pson or psons given to whomsoever for any distinct or other ppose or pposes, but other persuch other power or powers shall remain and be of the other same force and effect as if these presents had not been purposes. executed.

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XXIV. AND in case the sd, attorney, shall die, or become Substituincapable to act as my attorney, I hby appoint, substitute, of, another

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attorney in &c., to be my attorney in the place of the sd, attorney, with death, &c. power to exercise all or any of the powers and authorities hinbefore conferred on the sd, attorney, in as full and ample a mner in all respects as if the name of the sd, substitute, had been hinbefore throughout inserted instead of the name of the sd attorney (a).

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XXV. AND I hby for myself, my hrs, exs, and ads, ratify tion clause. and confirm, and agree to ratify and confirm whatsoever my sd [attorneys or] attorney [or any substitute or substitutes acting under [them or] him] shall do or purport to do by virtue of these presents, if the attorney is to act in a distant country, add, "including in such confirmation, whatsoever shall be done between the time of my decease or the revocation by any other means of this power of attorney and the time of such decease or revocation becoming known to my sd [attorneys or] attorney or [their or] his substitute or substitutes."

To register

power abroad.

XXVI. AND I hby authorise and empower the sd [attorneys or] attorney to acknowledge in my name, and as my act and deed, this power of attorney, and to register and record the same in the proper office in the sd colony, and to procure to be done any and every other act, matter, and thing whatsoever, which may be in anywise requisite or proper for authenticating and giving full effect to this power of attorney, according to the laws and usages of the sd colony.

(a) This clause is intended for a case in which only one attorney is appointed. In the case of a joint and several power to two or more, it would not, of course, usually be required.

PRECEDENTS.

I.

TO EXECUTE CONVEYANCE to PURCHASER, and receive
Purchase-money.

KNOW ALL MEN by these presents, that I, A., of, &c., appointment of attorney, p. 176, to receive the purchase-money, and give receipts for the same, p. 177: to execute the conveyance, p. 177 ratification, p. 182.

IN WITNESS, &c. (a)

II.

TO SURRENDER COPYHOLDS to use of Purchaser or

Mortgagee.

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KNOW ALL MEN, &c., appointment of B. as attorney, To surp. 176, to appear at the next or any subsequent court to be holden for the manor of in the county of before the lord or lords, lady or ladies, or steward or deputysteward of the sd manor, out of court, and then and there to surrender into the hands of the sd lord or lords, lady or ladies, either personally or by the hands and acceptance of the sd steward or deputy steward by the rod, according to the custom of the sd manor: ALL THAT, parcels, with the appur

(a) It is in some cases necessary, and in all cases desirable, that the Attestaexecution of a power of attorney should be attested by two witnesses,

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Subject to redemp. tion.

further

assurance,

tenances thof, TO THE USE of K., of, &c., his hrs and assigns, according to the custom of the sd manor, [subjt to a condon for making void the sd surrender, if I, the sd A., my hrs, exs, ads, or assigns shall, on the

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day of the sd K., his exs, ads, or assigns, the sum of £- with interest thon in the meantime at the rate of £

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To execute per annum]: AND to execute and do all such further assurances and things as shall be necessary or proper for procuring the sd K., his hrs or assigns, to be admitted tenant or tenants of the sd premes. Ratification, p. 182. IN WITNESS, &c.

To take admittance.

Subject to equity of redemption.

III.

TO obtain ADMITTANCE to COPYHOLDS.

KNOW, &c., appointment of B. as attorney, p. 176, to appear, &c., as in last precedent, and to take admittance of and from the sd lord or lords, lady or ladies, steward or deputy-steward of the sd manor by the rod, according to the custom of the sd manor, to ALL THAT, parcels, TO THE USE of me, the sd A., my hrs and assigns, [subjt to such right or equity of redemption as shall be subsisting therein by virtue of a conditional surrender of the sd hereds and premes dated the IN WITNESS, &c.

day of]. Ratification, p. 182.

IV.

BY a FIRM of TRADERS to raise MONEY on MORTGAGE of a Plantation in the Colonies.

KNOW ALL MEN, &c., that we, &c., appointment of attorneys, p. 176, for and on behalf of us and our sd firm, to

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