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              <text>&lt;p class="whitespace-normal break-words" style="text-align:center;"&gt;HM Treasury, 1 Horse Guards Road, London, SW1A 2HQ&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="whitespace-normal break-words" style="text-align:right;"&gt;16 January 2018&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="whitespace-pre-wrap break-words"&gt;Mr Barry McElduff &lt;br /&gt;Sinn Féin Office &lt;br /&gt;Meetinghouse Hill&lt;br /&gt;5 James Street&lt;br /&gt;Omagh&lt;br /&gt;Co Tyrone&lt;br /&gt;BT78 1DH&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="whitespace-normal break-words"&gt;The Chancellor of the Exchequer is aware of your letter of 15 January 2018 putting forward your resignation as Member of Parliament for the constituency of West Tyrone. Consistent with the procedures set out in &lt;em&gt;Erskine May&lt;/em&gt;, the Chancellor has this day therefore appointed you to be Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern.&lt;/p&gt;
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              <text>&lt;p class="whitespace-normal break-words"&gt;To all to whom these Presents shall come, the &lt;em&gt;Right Honourable Philip Hammond&lt;/em&gt;, Chancellor and Under Treasurer of Her Majesty's Exchequer, sendeth greeting.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="whitespace-normal break-words"&gt;Know Ye, that I, the said &lt;em&gt;Right Honourable Philip Hammond&lt;/em&gt; have constituted and appointed, and by these presents do constitute and appoint &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Columba Barry McElduff&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to be Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern, with full power and authority to hold and keep Courts, and to do all and every other act and acts, thing and things, which to the said offices of Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds aforesaid, or either of them, do belong or in anywise appertain, in as full and ample manner as any former Steward or Bailiff of the said Three Hundreds hath lawfully had, received, or enjoyed the same, to have and to hold the said offices of Steward and Bailiff of said Three Hundreds, together with all wages, fees, allowances, and other privileges and pre-eminences whatsoever to the said &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Columba Barry McElduff&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; during Her Majesty's pleasure; and I do hereby authorise and empower the said &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Columba Barry McElduff&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to demand and receive for Her Majesty's use all Court Rolls and other writings relating to the said Three Hundreds from any person or persons having the same in their hands or custody. And all and every such person and persons having the same in their hands or custody are hereby required to deliver up the same to the said &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Columba Barry McElduff&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; provided, nevertheless, that the said &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Columba Barry McElduff&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; shall enter these presents in the office of the proper Auditor within forty days next after the date hereof, and shall yearly return the Court Rolls of the said Three Hundreds into the said office of the said Auditor, and account with the said Auditor for all such sum and sums of money as he, the said &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Columba Barry McElduff&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; shall receive for and to Her Majesty's use, within forty days next after the feast day of Saint Michael the Archangel, which shall happen in every year, or else these presents and everything herein contained to be void. In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the Sixteenth day of January in the Sixty Sixth year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, and in the year of our Lord Two Thousand and Eighteen.&lt;/p&gt;
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