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inspection by any person concerned. And that if any ruler, assistant, or auditor, so elected as aforesaid, shall obstinately refuse such place, or shall negligently exercise the same, every such offender shall forfeit and pay five pounds. And that the said rulers, 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 exeVII. Clause. cution. And that the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London, and the Justices of the Peace within the shires next adjoining to the Thames, between Gravesend and Windsor, 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 said Act, or to such rules or orders of the said Company, and levy the penalties thereof by distress and sale of the VIII. Clause. offender's goods. And that all persons

owning or working any lighter or flat boat for unlading goods and merchandize from ships and other vessels, and registering themselves, and servants, and places of abode, in the said Company's books, by the 29th day of September 1700, are thereby declared lightermen; and that

they, and none but such registered persons (besides free watermen thereafter 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 per week for every such offence. And that none (except Trinity-men) shall IX. Clause. row or ply on the said river, between Gravesend and Windsor, in any boat, wherry, or barge, for carrying passengers for profit, except such as have served his apprenticeship, or is a servant or apprentice to a waterman. And that all the pe- X. Clause. nalties and forfeitures appointed by the said Act, or the rules or orders made pursuant thereunto, shall be levied in such manner as by the said Act is directed and appointed, and paid to the said rulers and overseers of the said Company, for the use of the poor and decayed persons of the said Society. And that it shall and XI. Clause. may be lawful for the rulers, auditors, and assistants for the time being, or the major part of them, on any court-day, to appoint any number of watermen, not exceeding forty, to ply and work on the Lord's day, between Vauxhall, above London-bridge, and Limehouse, below the same bridge, at such common stairs, or places of plying, as to them, or the major part of them, shall seem most convenient for carrying passengers across the said river, between the limits aforesaid, at one penny for so carrying each person; which waterman, so appointed, shall, on every Monday morning, pay unto the order of the said overseers, rulers, auditors, and as

sistants, all such money as shall be so received, who shall pay out of the same to such persons so working as they shall agree for daily, and the overplus to be applied to the use of the poor members of the said Company and their widows; and every such person so working, who shall neglect to pay such money so earned, shall forfeit and pay the sum of forty XII. Clause, shillings for every such neglect. Provided, nevertheless, the occupiers of any key between Hermitage-bridge and Londonbridge, may use what lawful liberty they had before; and woodmongers having wharfs for retailing fuel by themselves, and free watermen, or lightermen, may carry their own goods (only) by them retailed, and the occupiers of lay-stalls; and gardeners may carry their goods to market at London and Westminster, and places adjacent, and dung as they forXIII. Clause. inerly have done. And the rights of the Lord of the Manor of Gravesend, and of the Mayor, Jurats, and capital inhabitants of Gravesend and Milton, in the county of Kent, shall continue as formerly. And the watermen of St. Margaret's, Westminster, may ply and carry passengers across the river from Westminster-bridge to Strangate, and from the Horse-ferry to Lambeth-bridge, on the Lord's day, in their turns, paying the money they so earn to the use of the poor and decayed watermen of the said parish, and their widows; and the watermen of that parish, upon the 23d day of April yearly, shall choose two stewards and a clerk, and shall appoint such watermen as shall

so work in their turns as aforesaid, as more fully appears by the said Act. And XIV. Clause. whereas, by an act made in the fourth and fifth years of the reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled, "An Act for the Encouragement and Increase of Seamen, and for the better and speedier manning Her Majesty's Fleet;" it is enacted, that in case the Lord High Admiral, or three of the commissioners of the Admiralty for the time being, shall give notice to the said Company of Watermen, that there shall be occasion for such a certain number of the said Company to serve her Majesty, and they being duly summoned, by leaving notice in writing at the place of their usual abode; if within ten days after such summons, they shall not appear before the rulers, such person so summoned and convicted thereof, shall suffer imprisonment for one month, and be disabled from enjoying any privilege of the said Company for two years. And XV. Clause. whereas, by another act of Parliament, made in the said fourth and fifth years of the reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled, "An Act for the better ordering and governing the Watermen and Lightermen upon the River of Thames ;” reciting, that, whereas by an act of Parliament, made in the first year of the reign of King James the First, it is (amongst other things) enacted, that no wherryman or waterman shall take any apprentice, unless he shall then be of the age of eighteen years at the least, (except the son of a waterman,) who by the said Act might be taken apprentice at the

age of sixteen years; and that by several of the rules, orders, and constitutions made by the said Company, the increase of seamen is hindered and prevented, to the great prejudice of her Majesty, and the trade of this kingdom; it is enacted, that the said clause or clauses in the said Act of the first year of King James the First, that restrain the taking of apprentices until they shall be of the several ages of eighteen and sixteen years; and the rules, orders, and constitutions in the said first mentioned act particularly expressed, and all and every other rule, order, and constitution made for restraining any waterman, wherryman, or lighterman, that now are, or shall be hereafter free of the said Company, from taking and breeding of apprentices, shall be, and are, and is thereby repealed and declared XVI. Clause. to be void, and of none effect. And that the Court of Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city of London shall and may, from time to time, and at all times hereafter, review, re-examine, alter or amend, all such rules and by-laws which relate to the apprentices of watermen and lightermen, and all other orders and constitutions which have been made then, before, or which shall hereafter be made for the government of the said watermen and lightermen; which alterations and amendments shall be subject to the approbation of the Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench for the time being; and that all such rules, orders, and constitutions so reviewed, re-examined, altered, or amended and approved, shall