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ACT TO EXCLUDE FOREIGNERS FROM TRADING IN CORPORATIONS.
Put to the vote, what rent Mr. Ronaine shall pay for the strip of marsh southward of the late cut channelllately in the tenancy of Mr. Nich. Gree!L Ordered, that, paying 15s. per annum, he have a lease for seven years. Ordered, that Ald. Wright, Ald. Rogers, and ~Ir. Champion, or any two of them, view some ground about the Lough belonging to the Corporation, near some concerns of Ald. Ballard, and make report next Council whe the~ it be convenient to set same, and for what rent. · Present-Mr. Mayor, Sheriff Raynes; Alden. Wright, Rogers, Alwin, Ballard; Mr. Honaine, Mr. Walker, Mr.I>errie, Mr. lwlJcrts, Mr. Champion, Mr. Tho. Browne. 1 Aug., 1695. Ordered, that the Mayor and Sheriffs for the time being, Ahien. Nowen- ham, Hoare, Ballard, Hovell, and :Mr. Thomas Browne, or any two of them, be a Committee from time to time to correspond with our Representatives in the next Parliament, to have it past into an Act, the excluding of Foreigners and such as will not take the oaths mentioned in a late Act, from trading in Corporations, and taking away the livelyhood of his Maj. faithful and loving subjects. On reading of Ald. Rogers' deed of mortgage of the Butchers' Shambles, for his security for the payment of 260 pounds by him advanced towards building the same, which deed is approved by the Council, ordered, that the City seal be set to said deed on Ald. Rogers delivering up the bond he has from this Corporation under the City seal. . Ordered, that an arch be cast over that part of the river below the County bridge, and a meal market built, and what money shall be advanced by Ald. Rogers in building that particular work, shall be paid him out of the fines which shall be raised for making people free of the Corporation, the money for making freemen to be received by Ald. Rogers, and no other, until he be satisfied. Ordered, that Bernard Poey be admitted free paying 5 guineas, and that John Loyd and Hugh Mitchell be made free paying ten guineas each, the money to be paid to Ald. Rogers.
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