Section XXI Account of Fines to be made at the Four Assemblies, and of necessary Charges touching the Manufacture.
Overplus how to be disposed of.
And bee it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That a true accompt shall be made at the foure Assemblies (to be held quarterly as aforesaid) by the Wardens before the Maior of the City of Norwich for the time being and one of the Justices of the Peace of the said City and County of Norwich and two Justices of the Peace of the County of Norfolke of all such Fines and Forfeitures as shall be received and had belonging to the said Trade & Manufacture and of the necessarie Charges and Disbursements touching the same Trade and Manufacture and that the Overplus which shall remaine after the said necessary Charges and Disbursements are deducted shall be devided into two equall parts the one Moyetie thereof to be disposed X1 by the Wardens and Assistants of the said City of Norwich or the greater parte of them and the other Moyety thereof by the Wardens and Assistants of the said County of Norfolke or the greater parte of them for the use of the poore of the said Trade and Manufacture in such manner as the said Maior and Justices aforesaid respectively shall order and direct and no other any thing in this Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding
Annotations
Editorial notes
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Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: of O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]