Page:Ruffhead - The Statutes at Large - vol 5.djvu/578

 532 C. 18. Anno undecimo Ge org 11 Regis. A. D. 1724. at any Election of a Citizen "or Citizens to ferve in Parliament for the faid City, or of any Mayor or other Officer or Officers to be chofen by the Liverymen thereof, who have not been upon the Livery by the Space of twelve Calendar Months before fuch Election, and who (hall not have paid their refpective Livery Fines, or who having paid the fame fhall have received fuch Fines back again in Part or in all, or {hall have had any Allowance in refpect thereof; and no Perfon or Perfons whatfoever fhall have any Right to vote at any Election of a Citizen or Citizens to ferve in Parliament, or of any Mayor, Alder- man, or other Officer or Officers of or for the faid City, or any the Wards or Precincts thereof, who have at any Time within the Space of two Years next before fuch Election or Elections requefted to be, and accordingly have been difcharged from paying to the Rates and Taxes to which the Citizens of London, inhabiting therein, are or fhall be liable as aforefaid, or any of them, or have within the Time aforefaid had or received any Alms whatfoever; and the Vote of every fuch Perfon (hall be void. Mayor and A!- XV. And to the Intent that a final End may be put to all Difputes between the Mayor and Alder- ^Ne'ative in" men anc ^ the Commons of the Common Council of the faid City, touching the making or paffing of Acts, parting Afts, Sec. Orders or Ordinances in Common Council, and that no Aft, Order or Ordinance may for the future be as alfo the Com- made or parted in Common Council without the full Confent of the reprefentative Body of the faid City, mons. Rep. according to the antient Conftitution of the fame; Be it enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That no Act, 19 Geo. 2. c 8. Order or Ordinance whatfoever, at any Time from and after the faid firft Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and twenty-five, fhall be made or pafTed in the Common Council of the faid City without the AfTent of the Mayor and Aldermen prefent at fuch Common Council, or the major Part of them, nor without the AfTent of the Commons prefent at fuch Common Council, or the major Part of them. Exception. XVI. Provided always, That nothing in this Act contained fhall extend, or be conftrued to extend, to any Election, Nomination or Appointment in Common Council of any Common Serjeant, Town- Clerk, Judges of the Sheriffs Court, Coroner, Common Cryer, Commiffioners of Sewers, Garbler, and the Governor and Affiftants of London of the new Plantation of Uljier in Ireland, but that the Election,, Nomination or Appointment of all or any of the faid Officers fhall and may, from and after the faid firft Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and twenty-five, be made by the Mayor, Aldermen and Com- mons in Common Council affembled, or the major Part of them; any Thing in this Act contained to the contrary thereof notwithftanding. What Freemen XVII. And to the Intent that Perfons of Wealth and Ability, who exercife the Bufinefs of Merchaii- made after i June Ji^e, and other laudable Employments within the faid City, may not be difcouraged from becoming free pofeofthefrPer- °^ t ' 1e f ame i D Y reafon of the Cuilom reftraining the Citizens and Freemen thereof from difpofing of their fonal Eftate as Perianal Eftates by their Lad Wills and Teftaments; Be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, thejr think, fit. That it fhall and may be lawful to and for all and every Perfon and Perfons who fhall, at any Time from and after the faid firft Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and twenty-five, be made or become free of the faid City, and alfo to and for all and every Perfon and Perfons who are already free of the faid City, and on the faid firft Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and twenty-five fhall be unmarried, and not have UTiie by any former Marriage, to give, devife, will and difpofe of his and their Perfonal Eftate and Eftates, to fuch Perfon and Perfons, and to fuch Ufe and Ufes, as he or they fhall think fit - t any Cuftom or Ufage of or in the faid City, or any By-Law or Ordinance made or obferved within the fame, to the contrary thereof in any wife notwithftanding. Ixceptisn, XVIII. Provided neverthelefs, That in Cafe any Perfon, who fhall at any Time or Times from and: after the faid firft Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and twenty-five become free of the faid City, and any Perfon or Perfons who are already free of the faid City, and on the faid firft Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and twenty-five fhall be unmarried, and not have Iffue by any former Marriage, hath agreed or fhall agree by any Writing under his Hand, upon or in Confideration of his Marriage, or othervvife, that his Perfonal Eftate fhall be fubject to, or be diftributed or diftributahle according to the Cuftom of the City of London; and in Cafe any Perfon fo free, or becoming free as aforefaid, fhall die Lnteftate; in every fuch Cafe the Perfonal Eftate of fuch Perfon fo making fuch Agreement, or fo- dying inteftate, fhall be fubject to, and be diftributed and diftributahle according to the Cuftom of the faid City - y any thing herein contained to the contrary in any wife notwithftanding. Words to be XIX. And it is hereby further enacted, That there fhall, from and after the faid firft Day of June one omitted in the thoufand ("even hundred and twenty-five, be omitted and left out of the Oath of a Freeman of the faid City, Oath of a Free- t ^ e Words following, that is to fay, Ye /hall know no Foreigner to buy or fell any Merchandize with any other Foreigner within the faid City or the Franchife thereof hut ye Jhall warn the Chamberlain thereof or fome Mi- nifler of the Chamber; and alfo thefe Words following, that is to fay, Ye Jhall implead or fue no Free maty out of the City, zvhilft ye may have Right and Law within the fame City; and after thefe Words, Ye Jhall take no Apprentice, the Words immediately following fhall alfo be omitted, that is to fay, But if he be Free- born, that is to Jay, no Bondfman's Son, nor the Child of any Alien; and For no, and inftead thereof thefe Word, For ar.y, fhall be inferted in the faid Oath. Forfeitures, how XX. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That all and every the Forfeitures hereby to be aiftributed. enacted or inflicted fhall be diftributed in Manner following, that is toTay, One third Part thereof to the; King's moft Excellent Majefty; one other third Part thereof to the Chamberlain of the faid City, to the Ufe of the Mayor, Commonalty and Citizens of the faid City; and the remaining third Part thereof to him or them that will fue for the fame within fix Calendar Months next after the fame fhall be incur- red; to be recovered by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information in any of his Majefty's Courts of Re- cord at WeJlmirfter, wherein no EfibLn 3 Privilege, Protection or Wager of Law fhali be allowed, nor any jTsore than one Imparlance. XXI. And