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A54551 The petition of the Lord Major, aldermen and common council-men of the city of London in Common Council assembled to the Parliament for the reducing of all foreign trade under government : as also the petition, together with the proposals of several merchants of London ... humbly tendered to the grand committee of Parliament for trade ; containing the desired manner and method for such regulation. City of London (England). Court of Common Council. 1662 (1662) Wing P1817; ESTC R30772 7,068 18

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persons as His Majesty shall for that purpose Authorize And that the said Governor or Deputy being so sworn may be authorized to Administer or for the ease of the Merchants in the countrey under their hands and seals to depute any Mayor of any Town Corporate in this Kingdom to Administer the said Oathes to all other persons qualified as aforesaid that shall be admitted into any of the said respective Associations That Annually on the _____ day of _____ or within _____ days after the said respective Merchants so associated shall meet at some convenient place within the City of London where the Governor or Deputy for the time being shall by some publick Writing for that purpose fixed on the Royal Exchange appoint to choose out from amongst themselves a Governor Deputy Treasurer and such number of Assistants not exceeding four and twenty nor less then twelve And that all and every the Members of the said respective Associations residing out of the City of London may send up the Names of such persons residing in London which he desires should be choosen sealed up and directed to the Governor or Deputy of the said Association whereof he is a Member which shall be opened at the said Meeting and his Vote reckoned in the said Choice as if he were present That the Governor or Deputy or any seven of the Assistants may have power as often as occasion shall require to summon the generality together to some convenient place within the City of London And that they or the major part shall have power to make such By-laws and Regulations for the well-ordering the said respective Trades and to repeal and make void such former Rules by them made as they or the major part shall finde to conduce to the general Good and to impose such Impositions on Goods imported and exported for the Maintenance of the Government not exceeding one twentieth part of the Customs as they now are on all goods except Wines and on Wines not exceeding one fortieth part of the Customs as they now are As also to choose and appoint such Officer and Officers for the better execution of their Orders as they shall finde conven●ent Provided That no Rule of general Concernment shall pass for valid till it hath been sent to such parts or places where there are six or more Members of that Society to have their Votes of assent or dissent upon the return of which Votes at the next Meeting the said Votes from the countrey being reckoned with their Voting in person it shall be established by the major Vote or laid aside Provided also that no Rule or By-law to be made as aforesaid shall extend to the reducing any foreign trade other then that to the East-Indies into a Joynt-stock nor to limit any for how much or how little they shall trade nor at what price they shall buy or sell but that every one may trade for as much or as little and buy and sell his goods at such prices as he pleaseth And that to all Rules so made all the Members of the respective Associations in all Ports and places shall be obliged to submit and to such Payments and Penalties thereby appointed That in any Port or Town Corporate where there shall be a sufficient number of persons Members of any of the said Associations to constitute a Court according to the proportion appointed for the City of London there they may choose Officers and hold Courts and for the well ordering the trade of that Port or place according to the common Rules agreed on by the generality That every Merchant qualified as aforesaid shall be Admitted and at his first Admission into any of the said Associations shall pay Five pounds towards the raising of a Stock for carrying on the Government and in default shall be esteemed no Member thereof That any other person though not a Merchant bred not being an Artificer or Retailer or having left off his Handy-craft and retayling Trade shal be admitted for a Fine of Forty pounds to any of the said Associations That any person being a Member of any one of the said Associations may at any time be admitted into any other taking the usual Oath and paying onely Forty shillings for his Fine of Admittance That all Apprentices whose Indentures be duly registred and all Sons born to the Members of any the said Associations after his Father was a Member may be made Free without any Fine That the Charters granted to the Merchants Adventurers of England to the Merchants trading to the Levant to the East-land Merchants to the Muscovia and Russia Merchants and to the Merchants trading to the East-Indies may be confirmed with the Enjoyment of any further Priviledges herein granted to the French Spanish Portugal and Italian Merchants they conforming to the Rules herein appointed for the Admission of Members c. That all persons English and Strangers passing Goods inwards or outwards may give a Bill to the Officer of that Society under whose cognizance the place is and pay to him the Impositions set by that Society and that the Officer certifie under one Bill to the Collector Customer or other Officer for the Customs whether he be a Member of of that Society or not and if he be not a Member of the said Society he shall pay the Custom to His Majesty that Aliens are appointed to pay That no Officer pass any Entry without such Certificate on the penalty of loosing his or their places That all and any goods that shall be shipped to be transported or any goods landed from Foreign parts that have not first paid the Impositions set by that Society of Merchants under whose cognizance the place is to or from which the said goods are exported or imported shall be forfeited ⅓ to the Kings Majesty ⅓ to the Officer and the other third to the Society of Merchants And that when any Seizure is made or Information brought for the cause aforesaid no Licence to compound may be granted to the Seizor or Informer but onely by and with the consent of the Governor Deputy and Assistants of that Society concerned or the major part of them whereof the Governor or his Deputy to be one Provided That this Association here desired shall not prejudice a Charter granted to the Merchants of Exeter trading to France confirmed by Parliament in the fourth of King James but that they may be at liberty to continue the same or joyn in the Association as they see cause That the Statute made in the third Year of King James Chap. 6. giving leave to all persons to trade into Spain Portugal and France may be Repealed FINIS