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Section IV Mayor of Newcastle to administer Oath to Persons employed in measuring Keels, &c. in the River Tyne.

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

Commissioners may administer Oaths to all other Measurers.

And it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforesaid That the Maior of the Towne of Newcastle for the time being is hereby authorized and required to administer X1any Oath to-every person or persons imployed and appointed by the said Commissioners or any three or more of them for the admeasureing or marking of Boates and Keeles in the River of Tyne for true and faithfull execution and discharge of their respective Trusts and that the Commissioners to be at any time appointed for the measureing Boats and Keels or any three of them shall and may administer the like Oath to every person or persons by them imployed-and appointed for the measureing or marking of Boats and Keels or Waines or Carts in all places within the limitts of this Act for the' true and faitfull Execution and Discharge of their respective Trusts,

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Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: an O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]