490 C. iS.- Anno vicefimo fexto Georgii II. A. D. 1753. ihe Ch.irgfs of tl:e Company. fador and Coiifuls refpeclively for the Time being, any Goods, Wares or Merchandizes whatfoever, not prohibited by Law to be exported ; and alio to import, in like manner, from any Port or Place within the Limits of the faid Letters Patent, Raw Silk, or any other Goods, Wares or Commodities, purchafed within the laid Limits, (not prohibited by Law to be imported) upon paying or fccuring the Cuftoms, and other Duties payable for the lame, to his R'lajcfly, his Heirs and Succeflbrs, by virtue of any Law now in Force, or hereafter to be made; and upon paying fuch Impofitions or Sums of Money as mall be afleffed and charged upon all Goods, Wares or Merchandizes, to be exported or imported as aforefaid, or upon , any Ship's laden with the fame, for defraying the neceflary Expences of the faid Company; any Thing in the faid Letters Patent, or either of them, or any Ordinance, Conftitution or By-law of the faid Company, made or to be made, to the contrary in any wife notwithftanding. IV. Provided always. That the Lxpoitation of Ciold or Silver, either in foreign Coin or Bullion, fhall ■F-!pnrtat!on of remain fubieiS to the l3y-laws of the faid Company made or to be made in that Bcnalf. vcr fubjetl to the By-laws of the Company. Ev-iaws ftiallbe ^' • And be it further enafted by the Authority aforefaid. That it fliall and may be lawful for the faid c.-nnrrred at a Governor, or Deputy Governor and Company, in general Court afl'embled, to make fuch Rules, Ordi- fi bKquent ge- nanccs or By-laws, for the good Government of the faid Company, as the major Part of the Members mriic^urt, prefent at fuch general Court fhall think neceilary ; but no fuch iule, Ordinance or By-law, (hall be valid, or of any Force or Etfedf; whatfoever, unlefs the fime be confirmed at a fubfequcnt general Cjurt, to be held at leaft one Calendar Month after the genera!" Cojirt at which fuch Rule, Ordinance or By- .ina if 7 Free- law was made ; and if any feven or more of the Freemen of the faid Company ihall think themfelves ag- ineri (h.il! think grieved by any Rule, Ordinance or By-law, made or to be made, it fliall be lawful for them to prefent an themklves ag- ^ppg^j j,-, Writirig againft the fame to the Commiifioners for Trade and Plantations, who are hereby ini- ^I'.iw-ipeari'o powered and required, with all convenient Speed, to hear fuch Appeal, and to approve or difapprove fuch thVcommif- Rule, Ordinance or By-law, and in fuch manner as to them, or the major Part of them prefent, fhall jioners for appear fit and reafonable. Tradc^-S:c. yj_ Provided iUways, That fuch Rule, Ordinance or By-law, fhall be and continue in Force till fuch b '■ '"Fcrccfim'" Appeal be fo heard, and fuch Rule, Ordinance or By-lav/, be difapproved as aforefaid; but in cafe fuch the Appeal de- By-law, Rule or Ordinance, Ihall be difapproved on the hearing of fuch Appeal as aforefaid, then fuch termined. Rule, Ordinance or By-law, fhall, from and after fuch Difapproval only, be deemed null and void to all Intents and Purpofes whatfoever. Limitation nf VII. Provided alfo. That in cafe any fuch Appeal fliall be brought againfr any future Rule, Ordinance t'ne Time of Af- or By-law, to be made by the fiid Governor and Company, fuch Appeal fhall be brought within twelve P"^-"'^- Calend;rr Months after fuch Rule, Ordinance or By-law, fhall be fo made and confirmed as aforefaid; and if any fuch Appeal fliall be brought againft any Rule, Ordinance or By-lav/ of t!ie faid Company now in Force, fuch Appeal ihall be brought within twelve Calendar Months after the faid twenty-fourth Day of yune one thouland feien hundred and fifty-four. Notice of Ap- VlII. Provided alfo, That the Perfons appealing againfl: any fuch Rule, Ordinance or By-law, fliall real to be giver, at the fime Time give Notice in Writing of fuch Appeal, to the Go'ernor, Deputy Governor, or Se- cretary of the laid Company for the Time being. IX. Provided ncverthelels. That no fuch Rule, , Ordinance or By-law, fliall be of an)- greater or other By-laws to be p^rce or Validity than the fame would or ouarht to have been, if no fuch Appeal had been given by a no grs.iter I'Aq. a i Force than if no ^"'^ ■^'-'^• Appeal had. been granted. Notice oF ace- X. Provided always, and it is hereby further enafled. That whcnfoever any general Court of the faid ncrjlCouit for Cortfpany fliall be appointed to be held for the making of any Rule, Ordinance" or By-law, publick No- riwkmg By-laws tij-e thereof fliall be given in the London Ga%ctte at leaft twenty Days before the Time appointed for to be pi'.bhmed ^ i- c r r^ in the Gazette, theholdmgot (uch general Court. Rules for pre-' ^- Provided always, and it is hereby enafted. That all Rules, Orders and Regulations m.adc for pre- I'entmglnfec- venting InfciSion, fliall be, and remain in full Force and Virtue as if this KSt had never paffed. t^ontobein XII. And be it further enaded by the Authority aforefaid. That no Goods or Merchandizes liable Force. Good! liable to ^^ retain the Infe-rtion of the Plague, and coming from the Lcvcmt without a clean Bill of Health, ftiall rct.xin the Infec- ^^ landed in any Part of Great Britain or Ireland, or of the Ifles of Gucrnfey, yerfy, ^iklerney, Sark or Man, tlon, and coming unlefs it fliall appear to the Satisfadion of his Majefty, his Heirs or SuccefFors, or of his or their Privy without a clean Council, that the laid Goods or Merchandizes have been fufficiently opened and aired in the Lazarets of rot to^bflandcd ^'^"^^"■> ■^'^'^ona, Venice, Meffina, Leghorn, Genoa and Alarjeilles, or one of them. &c. uukls tUe time have been aiied in fome foreign Lazarets. CAP.
