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TOWN CLERK NOT TO PRACTISE IN COURT AS AN ATTORNEY.
That ten guineas be paid Ed. Knapp, Esq., for cleaning the streets of this City. The question being put whether money be taken for the offices of Clerk of the Crown and Peace and Not. Public, 23 persons being present, 17 voted that money should be taken for said offices. Present-D. Crone, E. Knapp, E. Hoare, J. Allen; Alden. French, .Atkins, H. Dickson, Broclesby; Mr. Pembrock, Mr. Fuller. 10 June, 1732. That for the future no Town Clerk, or Deputy Town Clerk, or other officer in Town Clerk's office, shall practise in the Court as an .Attorney during his being employed in said office, this to be for ever a standing rule, and if any should transgress, he be for ever debarred practising as an Attorney in this City. The question being put, who should be chosen to the offices of Clerk of the Crown and Peace and Not. Public of this City and County thereof, now vacant by the death of.Mr. Will. Lane, and the candidates nominated being Mr. Robt. Hoare, Ald. Rob. .Atkins, and Mr. Walter Gould, Mr. Robt. Hoare was duly elected. (Note, that Mr. Hoare paid £100 for these offices for the use of the Mayor, Sheriffs, and Commons into the Chamberlain of the City before he was sworn.) Present-Mr. Mayor, the Sheriffs, Recorder; Alden. Crone, Knapp, Dela- hoide, Hoare, Allen, French, Terry, Morley, Brocelsby, Hawkins, Bennett, Cramer, Atkins, M.illerd; Mr. Croker, Fuller, E:B.gain, Owgan, Pembrocke. 24 June, 1732. The question being put whether this Council should require any sum of money for the office of Town Clerk, resolved, that each candidate shall deposit the sum of £400, either in money or banker's good notes payable on demand into the hands of the Mayor, and that said sum deposited by the Candidate who shall be chosen by the Government shall be granted for ever to the use of the Mayor, Sheriffs, and Commons of this City, and after he shall be sworn, said sum shall be paid into the hands of the Chamber- lain and the other deposits returned to their owners, the money received to be applied towards the discharge of the incumbrances which this Corpora-
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