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386 Chancery Court Proceedings, 1671. Liber P C of Goods Cattle Merchandize and all other Comodities whatsoever and to sett such Reasonable Toll uppon such Goods cattle mer chandize and other Comodities as shall bee sold therein Respectively as shall bee Thought ffitt by our Selfe our heires or our Lieutenant of our Province for the time Being and shall and may alsoe Have and Hould a Court of Pypowdry Dureing the sd ffaire for the Deter minacon of all controversies and Quarrells wch may happen therein P.S according To the usuall Course In England in the like cases and wee Graunt unto them all Proffitts and Perquisites Due incident and Belonging to the sd Mrkett ffaire and Court Pypowder Provided alwaies that if the sd Mayor or Recorder soe chosen or to bee Chosen from time to time as afforesd or Either or any of them shall att any time Thereafter misbehave him or themselves in the Execucon of theire or any of theire sevrll Respective Office or Offices in the Judgment of our Selfe or our Heires or our Lieutenant of the said Province for the time Being And that wee or our heires or our Lieutenant of the sd Province for the time Being shall Direct and Signify under our his theire or any of theire hand and seale hands and seales to the Aldermen of the sd citty or any two of them that itt is our his or theire Pleasure that such Mayor or Recorder Respec tively soe misbehaveing them or themselves shall bee Remooved or Deposed from the Execucon of his or theire Respective office or offices Respectively that then and Imeadiately after the significacon the Authority and Power hereby Given to such Mayor or Recorder Respectively shall cease and bee voyd and wee hereby Authorize and Appoint that another Mayor or Recorder Respectively bee wthin one month next after Ellected and chosen in Manner afforesd as if the said Mayor or Recorder soe misbehaveing him or themselves and so as us our heires Lieutenant or any of us Directed or Appointed to bee Remooved were Actually Dead as by the said Pattent more fully and more Att Lardge itt doth and may Appear in the said Pattent is sithence become voyd and of noe fforce and Effect by Reason of the nonusier Thereof by the then Inhabitants of the said Place in the said Letters Pattents menconed and Expressed Now Know Yee ffurther that wee of our Speciall and Certaine Knowledge p. 6 And Mere Motion and as much as in us lies for us and our heires Doe Graunt to our wellbeloved the Inhabitants of that Place called and knowe by the name of Saint Maryes in the county of Saint Maries that the Place shalbee Erected into a citty wch shall shall containe A mile in Length Square wthin the Places circuits and Precincs thereof And wee doe hereby ffound Erect and Establish the Same a Citty for Evermore And wee doe hereby Graunt and Declare that the Citty shall bee for Ever Hereafter called and named by the name of Saint Maries and by noe other name. And that the sd Citty of Saint Maries shall bee an Incorporated Citty of one Mayor one person Learned in the Law by the name of Recorder. Six Alder- |
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