A Discourse on Trade, and Other Matters Relative to itCary, John
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A Discourse on Trade, and Other Matters Relative to it
Cary, John
Great Britain -- Commerce -- Early works to 1800; Great Britain -- Commercial policy -- Early works to 1800
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the said
Corporation in their said Court or Assembly, shall have hereby Power to
choose and entertain all such other Officers as shall be needful to be
employed in and about the Premisses, and them or any of them, from time
to time to remove as they shall see Cause; and upon the Death or removal
of them, or any of them, to choose others in their Place, and to make and
give such reasonable Allowances to them, or any of them, out of the Stock
or Revenue belonging to the said Corporation or Hospitals, as they shall
think fit.
Provided always, and be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid,
That no Officer or Officers, who shall be elected, chosen, appointed or
employed, in the Execution of, or by Virtue of this Act, or any of the
Powers or Authorities thereby given, shall be liable for or by reason of
such Office or Execution, to any of the Penalties mentioned in an Act
made the Five and Twentieth Year of the Reign of King _Charles_ the
Second, for the Preventing the Dangers which may hapen from Popish
Recusants.
And it is further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the said
Treasurer for the Time being, and all other Officers belonging to the
said Corporation, Hospitals, Work-houses, or Houses of Correction, shall,
from time to time, before such Person or Persons as the said Corporation
shall thereto appoint, account for such Moneys, Stock, and other Things
belonging to the said Corporation, Hospitals, Work-houses, or Houses of
Correction, as shall come to their respective Hands, or be under their
respective Care, upon every reasonable Warning and Notice thereof, by the
said Corporation to them respectively given; and on their Neglect or
Refusal to Account, as aforesaid, shall or may be, by the said Mayor, or
any two of the said Aldermen, committed to the County Goal for the said
City and County of _Bristol_, there to remain without Bail or Mainprize,
untill they shall become conformable, and Account, as aforesaid; and if
upon such Account there shall appear any Thing to be in their Hands
belonging to the said Corporation, Hospitals, Work-houses, or Houses of
Correction, they shall pay and deliver the same, as the said Corporation
shall direct, or give such Security for the same, as the said Corporation
shall approve of, on pain to forfeit double the Value thereof, to be
recovered by the said Corporation, by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or
Information in which no Protection, Essoign, or Wager in Law, or any more
than one Imparlance, shall be admitted or allowed.
And it is further enacted, That all other Pains, Penalties and
Forfeitures by this Act appointed, shall be Levied by Distress and Sale
of the Offenders Goods, by Warrant under the Hand and Seal of the said
Treasurer for the time being, restoring to the Offender the Overplus.
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