Cork Coffee House Charter 1793/4 (Ref. PR15/15)

Cork City and County Archives PR15/15

t 1 3 J '7.Jt i"" aliio hereby declared and ao-rced by the faid feveral Parties hereto AU Meetings to be held Ill JI P ' 0 ' ' fome Buildini of tile ~o- that all Meetings of this Company or Society, or of the Direcl:ors, or a Com- ciety. mittee of them, fhall be held in the City of Cork in fome Apartment of the Buildings belonging to this Society, to be appointed and appropriated for that ·Purpofe. ]t i.9' aifo hereby declared and agreed, by the faid feveral Parties hereto, When new Trcafurer clecl: . ~ ,. f, fh l I ::,. d ed, former one within Fortr that from Time to lime, when and as often as a new Trea urer al be e ecte Days, to fettle Accountsand • • , , hand him ov<:r .Ballance:, at a General Meeting of the Subfcnbers as aforefaid, the then former 1reafurer Books,&c. :fhall immediately thereupon within Forty Days next after, fairly and regularly

them, or either of them, •from the then lafi General Meeting, and {hall firi~e and fettle the Ballance then appearing due thereon ; and !hall alfo report m Writing a general Statement and Detail of all Occurrences and Tranfacl:ions re- lative to the Society and the then Situarion thereof, and of the Property and And of Deaths of Nominees, EffeB:s thereof. And the Clerk {hall alfo make up and exhibit an Account of th e and of fuch subfcribeyrs as N f r. h Nom1·nees as :!hall have died preYious thereto, and whofe Deaths fl1all not for Seven ears ames O 1UC demand fl1areof Profit.. I. K I d . d f fuch of the Subfcribers as ihall have {hall have come to us now e ge, an o

made Default by the fpace of Seven Years next preceding, in demanding their Annual Proportions of the Rents, Hfues and Profits of 'the fai<l Coffee-Houfe, Dwelling-Houfes, Shops and Premiffes. '{[,pat at fuch General Meeting, imme- diately after the Elecl:ions for Direcl:ors and Treafurer, the Trea urer an er · {i d Cl k

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fuall produce the feveral Books and Accounts fo by them kept and made up, which Books and Accounts ihall, at fuch General Meeting, be carefully and minutely infpected, audited, examined, fiated and fettled. And that at the fame Annual General Meeting, the Dividend or Proportion of the Rents, Iffues, 'hen Dividend. (hall be and Profits, and produce of the faid Grounds, IIoufes and PremiiTes, to be ftruck for year prmding. paid to each Subfcribcr then entitled by the cxifience of his N omince. for the Year ending on that Day; and the amount of fuch Divi<lend or Proportion :fhall be afcertained and determined.

make up an Account of all Monies, Sum and Sums, which he £hall have re. ceived and expended during his Continuance in Office, and !hall hand over to fuch new elected Treafurer fuch Ballance or Sum as {hall :ippear to be due thereon to this Company or Society, together with all Deeds, Conveyances, Leafes, Books, \Vritings, Property and Effects wl11tfoever, of or belonging to this Society, whereof he {hall have the Cufrody or Pofieffion in right of his faid Office of Treafurcr. And that if any Treafurer who Ihall be fo difcontinucd as

aforcfaid, fhall for Forty Days after the Eleaion of a Perfon to fucceed him in his faid Oilicc, neglccr or refufe to furnifh fuch Account, and hand over the nallan~c due thereon, and all other Property of this Society in his Hands, to the faid new clecte<l Treafurer, then and in that Cafe the Perfon fo neglecting- . a , lt r ~ 't h' Sh ._, .._, or in e,au 1orie1 ,s are f fi {] 11 I: I: • h' SI l ll • f d • } p din the Society as if J,;ll • 'o- 0r re U mg, la J Ofl Clt lS 1are anc. roport10n O an 1Il t lC roperty an minec dead; and be alfo fued r JT •'.'l. f } • S • • l'k • r I • N · N • for.fuch llallancc, &c. . HCCd o t ns oc1cty, m 1 e manner as u us ommee or ommees was or ,vere Dead, and iliall alfo be fued at Law in the Na.me of the faid new elected Treafurer, or otherwife, as fhall be neceffary for the recovery of the Ballance, Effecl:s and Property of this Company or Society, which he fhall fo have in his Hands. And that fuch new elecl:ed Treafurer !hall pafs a Receipt or Receipts for N T fi e- fuch Sum and Sums of Money, Goods, Effell:s, Deeds, Writings and Property ~;!pt~~,~~~c;~m/;,ny: 1 ~!~~1 r, R cw rea urcr to pa • of the faid Society, as he fhall fo receive, in fome or one of the Company's over. Books, which Receipt or Receipts {hall be figned in the Prefence of, and attefi- ed by the Clerk to this Society.

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lt t~ alf O hereby declared by the faid fevcrcl Parlies hereto~ that if the Bu..

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not be .fini!h~d on that Day, finefs to be done and tranfacl:ed at any General l\Icctmg, cannot

. • lcated on the Day appointed for fuch General 1\1cctmg, then, and w 1enever it p . h • 1 fhall fo happen, the faid General l\Ieeting fhall have a Power to cont1~ue t e faid Meeting by adjournment for any time they {hall think proper, dunng the Veek in which faid General Meeting !hall be appointed to be held. '1ft ill¥ alfo declared and agreed, by and between the faid feveral Parties hereto, that at any General Meeting of this Society (whether Annual or ot~er- wife) fuch By-Laws, Rules and Regulations for the government and regulation f 1 · s · t and tlie Funds Effecl:s and Property thereof, as any of the o t us ocie y, , , Subfcribers fhall deem neceffary, may be propofed to be agreed to and enacl:ed. . And if fuch By-Laws, Rules and Regulations, !hall be approved of at the next J I P General Meeting of the Society to be held after fuch Propofal, by a ma3onty o the Members then prefent; the fame {hall from thenceforth be binding and con- dufive on the faid Parties to thefe Prefents, and every of them, their and every of their Executors, Adminifirators and Affigns, as fully and effectually TO ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES as if the fame had been agreed to, infcrted and • • f

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By-Laws may be propofed • t any General Meeting.

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lt i£1 alfo hereby declated aod agreed, by and between the faid feveral Parties Books open for Infpeclion • • of the Suhfcriben, who m,1y hereto, that all Books, wl1cther of Accounts or otherw1fe, w Juch fh:ill be kept take Extracts.

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by the Clerk for the ufe of this Society, fhall and will at all fc:ifonable and con- venient Times, be open and free for the lnfpeclion and Perufal of every Sub• fcriber to this Scheme, his Heirs, Executors, Adminifrrators, or Affign , who may at their Will and Ple1fure take fuch Extracl: or Extracts therefrom, as they fhall think proper.

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. contained in thefe Prefents; provided always that fuch By-Laws, Rules, or Re-

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Iffues and Profits of this Scheme, or the faid Ground.s, 1 ou1es an

jf t f.S' alfo declareJ and agreed, by the faid feveral Parties hereto, that at At Annual General Meeting, • a Day fixed for meeting of \he General Annual Meeting, ,vhen and as foon as the Sum to be paid to the Directors to p11y Divi~c:ndi, D Proprietor

to be paid, applied, and difpofed of, under this Deed.

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Cork City and County Archives PR15/15

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