sen, by the Court of Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London for the Time being, Eight Persons of the most wife, difcreet, and best Sort of Watermen; and Three Persons out of Twelve Persons to be yearly nominated by the Lightermen, of the most wife, discreet, and best Sort of Lightermen, being Householders, having Two Lighters or Flat Boats upon the said River, between Gravesend and Windfor; which Election shall be at the first Court of Aldermen, to be holden within the faid City, next after the first Day of June; which said Eleven Persons fo elected, shall be named and called the Overseers and Rulers of all the Wherrymen, Watermen, and Lightermen that shall use, occupy, or exercise any Rowing upon the faid River, between Gravefend and Windfor; who shall keep good Orders and Obedience amongst the faid Watermen and Lightermen. AND to IV.Clause. that End and Purpose the Rulers and Afsistants of the faid Company for the Time being, shall, on the First Court-day after the First Day of June, yearly appoint the Watermen of the principal Towns, Stairs and Places of Plying, or the major Part of them respectively, between Gravesend and Windsor, to choose one Free WaA2 terman, terman, being an Householder, to be of their Afsistants, so as they exceed not Sixty, nor be less than Forty Watermen; and the Lightermen which shall meet at the Hall of the faid Company on the First of June, between the Hours of Eight and Twelve in the Morning yearly, or the major Part of them then present, shall choose Nine Lightermen, who, together with the said Watermen, shall be the Assistants of the faid Company, to advise and assist them for preferving good Government amongst the faid Company; which Rulers and Assistants, or the major Part of them, shall, on the first of July, yearly, present to the Court of Lord Mayor and Aldermen, for their Approbation, Five able and fit Watermen, and Two able and fit Lightermen; which Seven Persons, or the major Part of them, shall audit the Accounts of the Rulers and others of the faid Company, and shall enter fuch Accounts in a Book kept for that Purpose, and sign the same; which Book shall be kept in some public Place in the Company's Hall, for View and Inspection by any Person concerned. V. Clause. And that if any Ruler, Assistant, or Au ditor, so elected as aforesaid, shall obstinately refuse such Place, or shall negligently 4 ligently exercise the fame, every such Offender shall forfeit and pay Five Pounds. AND that the said Rulers, VI. Clause. Auditors, and Assistants, or the major Part of them present, being all duly summoned, by Summons in Writing, left at the Place of their usual Abode, may make Rules and Orders, with reasonable Penalties, for the good Government of their Society, to be laid before the Court of Lord Mayor and Aldermen, to be by them examined, altered, or approved; and after confirmed or altered by the Lord Chief Justice of either Bench; and then to be binding, and put in Execution. AND that the Lord VII. Claufe. Mayor and Aldermen of London, and the Justices ofthe Peace within the Shires next adjoining to the Thames, between Gravefend and Windfor, and every of them, within their several Jurisdictions, upon Complaint of the Overseers and Rulers, or any Two of them, shall upon Oath hear and determine all Offences committed contrary to the faid Act, or to fuch Rules or Orders of the faid Company, and levy the Penalties thereof by Distress and Sale of the Offender's Goods. AND that all Persons owning or working VIII.Claufe any Lighter or Flat Boat for unlading Goods A 3 Goods and Merchandize from Ships and other Vessels, and registering themselves and Servants and Places of Abode, in the faid Company's Books, by the 29th Day of September 1700, are thereby declared Lightermen; and that they, and none but fuch registered Persons (befides Free Watermen there after registered as Lightermen, and such as shall have served their Time to Lightermen) shall keep and work any Lighters or other great Craft, under the Penalty of Five Pounds IX. Claufe. per Week for every fuch Offence; AND that none (except Trinity-men) shall row or ply on the faid River, between Gravefend and Windsor, in any Boat, Wherry, or Barge, for carrying Pafsengers for Profit, except fuch as have served his Apprenticeship, or is a SerX. Clause. vant or Apprentice to a Waterman. AND that all the Penalties and Forfeitures appointed by the said Act, or the Rules or Orders made pursuant thereunto, shall be levied in such Manner as by the faid Act is directed and appointed, and paid to the faid Rulers and Overseers of the said Company, for the Ufe of the poor and decayed Perfons of the said Society. XI. Clause. And that it shall and may be lawful for the Rulers, Auditors and Afsistants for A for the Time being, or the major Part they had before; And Woodmongers A 4 |