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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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