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How Money so earned to be employed; Two Justices of Peace may call Watermen to account for such Monies; Watermen of the said Parish may choose Stewards, &c.
Provided alwaies That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to hinder or prevent the Watermen of the Parish of Saint Margarets Westminster from plying or working crosse the River of Thames from Westminster Bridge to Standgate and from the Horse-ferry to Lambeth Bridge on every Lords Day in their severall Turns as they have lately accustomed and used to doe And the Moneys earned by them or any of them on that Day is hereby directed to be from Time to Time imployed for the Use of the Poor aged decayed and maimed Watermen and their Widowes of the Parish of Saint Margaret Westminster And any Two Justices of the Peace of the said Parish are hereby authorized from Time to Time to call the Watermen soe working to account for the Moneys by them earned on the Lords Day as aforesaid and to cause the same to be applyed and disposed as aforesaid And that the said Watermen of the said Parish of Saint Margaret for the Time being shall choose Two Stewards and a Clerke on the Three and twentieth Day of Aprill in every Yeare Yearely and such Watermen of the said Parish or the major Part of them which shall be present at a Meeting of their Society shall and have hereby Power to appoint such of the Watermen of the said Parish as shall in their respective Turns worke on the Lords Daies as aforesaid Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.