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SECT.II Social TRUSTEES New. TRUSTEES Orig.
ART. IV
Publicans disqualified No person, while he keeps a house of public entertainment
or sells strong drink [liquors] other than medieval by retail, shall act as a
Trustee
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Observations
This provision having no special Sanction takes of course
the general discriptionary one of Fine or Imprisonment
This however is more than the every one can divine: being one
of those secrets which men of Law keep to themselves,
in full perfect appearance of thier efficacy upon those who kno
nothing of the matter.
Moreoever it may be asked, if the expedient of
gisting an interest to a prosecutor in the enforcement of it was a proper one
in the preceeding Section, what is it that makes it otherwise in this? in private acts
which I have seen, it is adopted in both cases.
An Apothacary is not very likely to be a cadidate for such
an Office; if he were, the word "drink" intimating something that is
used for Diet, would be the less liable to move doubts, than "Strong
liquor" many sorts of which areused in medicine.
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ART. V
In default of a full meeting of Trustees, or of a due adjournment,
the number present shall appoint another
for the same place, with 10 days written notice; or in
their default or if there have been none present the Clerk: such notice to be affixed on
every Turnpike on the road, of if there be as yet
no Turnike, upon the chief door of most conspicuous placein some
principal town or place near to which the road will
pass.
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Observations
The possibe uses of this word aretwo: one, to make a printed notice bad; the ther, to prevent a set of
Trustees from playing a trick upon their associates
by sticking nothing but sounds upon a gate.
// Directions of this loose stamp concerning notices have often been a
sourceof litigation: and motives to smuggle meetings
are conceivable not difficult to conceive. It would be something more precise
to direct the notice to be affixed "upon a chief door
of all or not less than 3 of the Parish Churches
in each of the 2 nearest Market Towns nearest to the place of meeting and
also in a conspicuous part of the Market-places
of those towns" to which might be added, (as in it is some
particular acts) " as also in one such Newspaper as is
printed the nearest to the such place." But what if the notice be torn down again as soon as it is stuck up? a trite piece of ingenuity obvious enough, and which at least one would think ought not to be could hardly be view'd new to any one who has had the honour of a degree at Oxford.
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ART. VII.
No act of Trustees shall be valid unless signed by the compleat number by at the
same meeting by the number lawful so to do it.
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Observations
An Adjournment made to any Hour of a Day on which
the meeting was not "appointed to be held" must have
attended with an extraordinary consequence effect: it was high time
to guard against it.
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