The lawes or standing orders of the East India Company

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Title: The lawes or standing orders of the East India Company
Author: East India Company.
Publication: [London :: E. Allde?],; 1621.
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Subject terms: East India Company -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Early works to 1800.; East India Company -- Administration -- Early works to 1800.
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Measurer of Timber and Plancke.

XCIII.

THE Measurer shall giue his diligent Attendance dayly in the Yard at the Water▪side, to take vp all such Timber, Plancks, sheathing Bordes, Mastes, or other Materials, that concerne him to receiue by Measure, which he shall carefully and iustly performe that the Company may not be wron∣ged in the goodnes of the said Materials, neither yet through any wants in the said Measure.

XCIIII.

He shall not receiue any prouisions into the Companies Yard, without a Note or writing from those persons, who shall haue Order to prouide and send the said prouisions, and hee shall refuse to vnlade any such Timber, Plancke, Boardes, Mastes, or the like, which are faulty and vnfit for the Companies vse, acquainting the Clarke of the Yard presently of his procee∣dings therein, vnto whom also he shall deliuer the said Notes, that some Resolution may be taken by the Committees of the Yards to determine the busines.

XCV.

He shall in the vnlading of the said Timber, Plancke, Boards, Mastes and the like, from the Fiue and twenty day of March next, marke euery piece in the head with the Letter A. vntill the Fiue and twenty day of March next following, and then he shall begin to marke with the Letter B. and so e∣uery yeare change a Letter.

XCVI.

He shall see the said Timber, Plancke, and Boardes, lodged in the most conuenient places of the Yard neare their vse, laying the straight Timber, Beame timber, Floore timber, Phittocks, Squire knees, Racking knees, and the seuerall fortes of Planckes by themselues, to auoyde the great labour and charge, which hath bin heretofore in the often remouings of the said Materials in the occasions of their vse, when they were mingled all toge∣ther.

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XCVII.

He shall set a number neare the Marke, or at both ends of euery piece of Timber, Plancke, boords, and the like: and he shall keepe a Booke, noting downe therein the contents, and the tares by the said numbers; and thereof he shall giue a true and perfect Accompt of all, vnto the Clarke of the Yard, to the intent that he also may enter the same, euery piece particularly in a Booke as is giuen him in charge to performe.

XCVIII.

He shall deliuer of the said Timber, Planckes, Deales, Tree-nayles and Boords, to the building and repayring of the Companies Ships, or otherwise to their vses, keeping a true Accompt in his booke of the Numbers and contents which shall be vsed vpon each perticular Ship, and he shall giue a true coppy dayly of all his proceedings herein, vnto the Clarke of the Yard, that thereby he may also enter the same orderly in his Bookes of Ac∣compts.