Section IV Corporations and Workhouses to be within the Bills of Mortality.

Lord Mayor of London President of that in London.; Regulations for Election of Officers.

And for the further redresse of the mischeifs intended to be hereby remedied Be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from thenceforth there be & shall be one or more Corporation or Corporations Workehouse or Workehouses within the Cities of London and Westminster and within the Burroughs Towns and places of the County of Middlesex and Surrey scituate lying and being within the Parishes mentioned in the weekely Bills of Mortality consisting of a President X1 a Deputy to the President a Treasurer And that the Lord Maior of the City of London for the time being be President of the Corporation or Corporations Workehouse or Workehouses within the said City and the Assistants to be the Aldermen of the said City of London for the time being and fifty two other Citizens to be chosen by the Common Council of the said City And that the said President and Assistants or the major part of them shall and may elect a Deputy President and Treasurer and all other necessary Officers hereby constituted and authorized to execute the powers and Offices by this act appointed And that upon the vacancy by death or otherwise of any Assistant the power to elect in theire roomes be in the said Common Council and the Election of the Deputy President or Treasurer and all other Officers in the said President and major part of the Assistants as aforesaid And that a President a Deputy President a Treasurer and Assistants be nominated and appointed by the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of England for the time being out of the most fitt persons inhabiting in the Citie of Westminster or the Liberties thereof for the Corporation or Corporations Workhouse or Workhouses within the same