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A82383 Anno regni Gulielmi III. Regis Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ & Hiberniæ, septimo & octavo. At the parliament begun at Westminster the two and twentieth day of November, anno Dom. 1695 In the seventh year of the reign of our sovereign lord William the third, by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.; Public General Acts. 1695-1696 7 & 8 Gul.III.c.32 England and Wales. 1696 (1696) Wing E1033D; ESTC R232779 7,996 11

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One Year and no longer And the said Mayor Aldermen and Forty eight Persons and such other Charitable Persons that shall be Elected and Constituted as is herein mentioned and expressed for the time being or the Majority of them shall have Power in case of the Death of any such Officer so Elected and Constituted before their said Year expired to Elect and Constitute others in their Room to hold the said Office for the Remainder of the said Year and shall have Power and Authority at any time or times for just Cause to remove displace and put out any such Officer out of his said Office and to Elect and Constitute another in his room And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Governour or in his Default the said Deputy Governour or in both their Defaults Six of the said Assistants for the time being shall have and hereby have Power and Authority and are hereby Enjoyned and Required from time to time upon the Second Thursday in every Second Month in every Year accounting January for the First Mouth to hold and keép a Court or Assembly of the said Corporation within the said City of Bristoll of One and twenty of the said Guardians at least on the days and time and in manner and for the ends in this Act mentioned that is to say The said Governour shall hold the said Court or Assembly betweén the hours of One and Two in the Afternoon and in his Default the said Deputy Governour or any Six of the said Assistants shall after the hour of Two hold the same And also the said Governour for the time being shall have and hereby hath Power and Authority at any such other time or times as to him shall seém meet to Summon Assemble and Hold a Court or Assembly of the said Corporation upon Two days Notice or Warning at the least to be given of such Court or Asiembly to be held And in case any Twenty of the said Guardians upon any Emergeney signifying it under their Hands to the Goveruour for the time being That it is their Desire that an Extraordinary Court or Assembly of the said Corporation may he Called and Held the said Governour shall be bound and is hereby Enjoyned and Required to Call and Hold such Court or Assembly at such time as the said Twenty Guardians shall so desire and on his Refusal the said Deputy Governour for the time being on such signification shall be bound and is hereby likewise Enjoyned and Required to Call and Hold the said Court or Assembly and on his Refusal any Six of the said Assistants shall have and hereby have Authority to Call and Hold the said Court or Assembly at all which Courts or Assemblies all and every Member and Members of the said Corporation for the time being are hereby Enjoyned to appear and be present and not to depart from the same without the Licence of the said Court or Assembly on pain to Forfeit such reasonable Sum and Sums of Money not exceéding Five Shillings to the Vse of the said Corporation as by the said Court or Assembly or any succeéding Court or Assembly shall be Assessed upon them unless they can shew some reasonable Excuse to be allowed of by the said Court or Assembly And the said Court or Assembly are hereby Impowered to Summon to appear before them any of the Inhabitants of the said City to answer to Matters relating to the said Corporation who are hereby Required to appear upon such Summons and answer such Questions on Forfeiture to the Vse of the said Corporation of a Sum not exceéding Two shillings and Six pence for every Default to be Levied as is herein after Directed And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Corporation at the said Court or Assembly shall have and hereby have Power and Authority from time to time to make and appoint a Common Seal or Seals for the Vse of the said Corporation and to Make and Ordain By-Laws Rules and Ordinances for and concerning the better Governing the said Corporation and the Poor of the said City and shall have and have hereby Power to Purchase Buy or Exect an Hospital or Hospitals Work house or Work houses House or Houses of Correction and to provide what other Necessaries they shall think convenient for the Seeting to Work the Poor of the said City of what Sex or Age soever they be and shall have and hereby have Power and Authority to Compel such Idle or Poor People begging or seéking Relief who do not betake themselves to some lawful Imployments and such other Poor who do or shall hereafter Receive Alms of the respective Parishes or Places where they Inhabit or Seék the same or by any of the Laws now in Force ought to be Maintained or Provided for by any Parish or Place within the said City to Dwell and Inhabit in such Hospital or Hospitals Work house or Work houses and to do such Work as they shall think them Able and Fit for and to detain and keép in the Service of the said Corporation until the Age of Sixteén Years any Poor Child or Children of the said City left to be Maintained by the said City or any Parish or Place in the same or begging or seéking Relief or which by any of the Laws now in Force ought to be Maintained and Provided for by any Parish or Place within the said City or the Child or Children of any other Person or Persons that are or shall be willing or desirous to place or put their Child or Children in such Hospital or Hospitals until their said Age of Sixteén Years and after they shall have attained their said Age of Sixteén Years or sooner the said Corporation by Indenture shall have Power to Bind and put Forth such Child or Children Apprentices to any Honest Person or Persons within the Kingdom of England for any Number of Years not exceéding Seven Years as they shall think convenient which Indenture shall be binding to such Child or Children And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Court or Assembly so Constituted as aforesaid shall have and hereby have power to inflict such reasonable Correction and Punishment on any Poor Person or Persons within the said Hospital or Hospitals Work house or Work houses House or Houses of Correction that shall not conform to such Rules Orders and Ordinances so made as aforesaid or misbehave themselves in the same And that the said Court or Assembly so Constituted as aforesaid shall have and hereby have Power to appoint a Committee to consist of One and twenty of the Guardians at the least who or any five of them of which Two shall be Assistants shall from time to time or at any time until the next Court have Power to inflict such reasonable Correction and Punishment as aforesaid on any such Poor Person or Persons offencing as aforesaid And for the better Carrying on so Pious and