Brokers Act 1696

II. Broker on Admittance to take the Oath following.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That upon the Admittance of any Person or Persons to exercise the Trade and Employment of a Broker such Person or Persons respectively before hee or they shall use or exercise the said Trade or Employment by virtue of this Act shall severally take their Corporal Oath in the Forme or to the Effect following that is to say.

I. A. B. doe sincerely promise and sweare That I will truely and faithfully execute and performe the Office and Employment of a Broker betweene Party and Party in all things appertaining to the Duty of the said Office and Employment without Fraud or Collusion to the best of my Skill and Knowledge and according to the Tenour and Purport of the Act intituled An Act to restraine the Number and ill Practice of Brokers and Stock-Jobbers.

So help me God.

Lord Mayor, &c. to administer the Oath.; Broker in Three Months after Admittance to take the Oaths 1 W. & M. c. 8. subscribe the Association 7 & 8 W. III. c. 27. § 3. and enter into the Obligation following.

Which Oath the said Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the City of London are hereby impowered to administer and likewise every such Person and Persons within Three Months after such his or their Admittance as aforesaid shall take in his Majesties Court of Chancery or Kings Bench or Quarter Sessions of the County wherein hee lives the Oaths mentioned and appointed to be taken in and by one Act of the First Yeare of the Reigne of King William and Queen Mary intituled An Act for abrogating the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and appointing other Oaths and shall also subscribe the Association appointed to be subscribed by an Act made in the Seventh Yeare of his present Majesties Reigne intituled An Act for the better Security of his Majesties Royal Person & Government and also every such Person & Persons att the Time of such their Admittance shall likewise enter into one Obligation to the Lord Mayor Citizens and Co[m]monalty of the City of London of the Penalty of Five hundred pounds with Condition there under written in the Forme and to the Effect following that is to say.

The Condition of this Obligation is such That whereas the above bounden A. B. is sworne & admitted a Broker pursuant to the Statute in that Behalfe lately made Now therefore if the said A. B. doe and shall well and truely use execute and performe the Office and Employment of a Broker between Party and Party without Fraud Covin or any corrupt or crafty Devices according to the Purport true Intent and Meaning of the said Statute in that Case lately made and provided then this Obligation to be void or else to remaine in full Force and Virtue.