{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenland-trade-act-1692/section-XI",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenland-trade-act-1692/section-XI.json",
  "legislation": "aep/WillandMar/4/17",
  "legislation_title": "Greenland Trade Act 1692",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenland-trade-act-1692",
  "path": "section/XI",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XI",
  "heading": "Oath to be taken by Committees.",
  "text": "And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That every one of the said Sixteen Co[m]mittees of the said Company for the time being before they be admitted to the execuc[i]on of their said respective Offices or Places of Co[m]mittees shall take the following Oath. viz.\nYou sweare to be faithfull and true dureing the time of your place of trust as one of the Co[m]mittees to the Company of Merchants of London tradeing to Greenland and their Successors the good Estate of the Adventurers in this present Joynt Stock you shall favour and affect and the Priveledges granted unto them (to your power) endeavour to maintaine and preserve You shall be carefull to see and provide that an equal and indiferent hand be carried in the Government of the Company and in the Affaires thereof to all the Adventurers that shall adventure or put in Stock And that an equal Division from time to time be made to all the Adventurers according to the proportion of their several Stocks duely paid in. So help you God.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/4/17/section/XI",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:24:17.624087+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}