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Greenland Trade Act 1692
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XIV.Governors, &c. to be chosen annually.
Proceedings.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That the said Governour [X1and] Deputy Governour or any Five of the Co[m]mittees then in being shall before the said Twentieth day of October in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety X2 foure att any time between the First day and the Twentieth day of October then next following and so annually for every yeare afterwards between the days last menc[i]oned (timely notice thereof being first given) call a general Court of all the Members of the said Company who shall have subscribed to the said Joynt Stock the sum of Five hundred pounds or more and paid in one fourth part of their several Subscriptions as aforesaid and such other proportions of the same as shall be directed and appointed as aforesaid and shall have severally taken the said Oath of Admission then and there to elect and choose out of the Members of the said Company so qualified as aforesaid One Governor One Deputy Governor and Sixteen Co[m]mittees of the said Company to serve for one whole yeare next ensueing his and their respective Elections And if the said Governor or Deputy or any of the Co[m]mittees for the time being shall happen to die before the expiration of the said yeare for which he or they shall be so elected that then and from thenceforth it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said Governor or Deputy Governour or Five of the Co[m]mittees to su[m]mon and call together a General Court of the Adventurers aforesaid and then and there to choose into the place or places of him or them so dyeing other fit person or persons qualified as aforesaid to continue in their respective Offices or Places dureing the remainder of such yeare.
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X1Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: or O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
X2Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: and O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
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