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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Chirurgion generall.

CLII.

THE said Chirurgion and his Deputy shall haue a Lodging or a place in the Yard, where one of them shall giue Attendance euery work∣ing day, from morning vntill night, to cure any person or persons who may be hurt in the Seruice of this Company, and the like in all their Ships riding at an Anchor at Deptford and Blackwall, and at Erith, where hee shall also keepe a Deputy with his Chest furnished, to remaine there continually, vn∣till all the said Ships be vayled downe from thence to Grauesend.

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CLIII.

They shall also cut the hayre of the Carpenters, Saylors, Caulkers, Labou∣rers, & any other Workemen in the Companies said Yards, and Ships, once euery forty dayes, in a seemely māner, performing their works at Breakfast and Dinner times, or in raynie weather, & in an open place where no man may loyter or lye hidden, vnder pretence to attend his turne of Trimming.

CLIIII.

They shall discouer vnto the Clarke of the Yard, and to others who shall be in places of Authority, all such persons whom they shall finde decrepit, lame, vncleane, or vnable to the Companies seruice, that they may be forth∣with dismissed from the same.

CLV.

In consideration of the afore-written Attendance and performance, it is ordered, that euery Carpenter, Saylor, Labourer, or other Workeman whatsoeuer in the said Yards, and Ships, shall pay two pence euery moneth out of his Wages, to the said Chirurgion generall.

CLVI.

And the said Chirurgion generall shall assist the Committees to hire vnto the Shipping, and voyages of this Company, skilfull and honest Chirurgi∣ons and their Mates, at such reasonable rates of wages, as possible he may: and he shall acquaint and shew them from time to time, all such Medicines and things as shall be furnished into the Chests, of which they are to take charge for the voyages.

CLVII.

He shall vse diligence to furnish vp all the said Chests, in such due times, that they be hereafter brought vnto the Companies house, foureteene dayes at least before there shall be occasion to ship them, that so euery perticular thing may be seene and allowed, by those Committees, Doctors, Apothi∣caries, or any others, whom the Court of Committees shall please to ap∣point for that purpose.

CLVIII.

He shal at the returne home of the Companies Ships from the Indies, re∣ceiue, & also giuen a Receipt, to be accomptable to the said Company, for the Chirurgions Chests, Tooles, Medicines, & Ingredients: of all which he shal take a due accompt of the ship Chirurgion, when he deliuereth vp his chest.