The lawes or standing orders of the East India Company

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The lawes or standing orders of the East India Company
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East India Company.
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[London :: E. Allde?],
1621.
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East India Company -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Early works to 1800.
East India Company -- Administration -- Early works to 1800.
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"The lawes or standing orders of the East India Company." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A21082.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.

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Clarke of the Slaughter-house.

CLXIIII.

THE said Clarke shall hereafter vse his best endeuour and diligence, to see all those Orders duly performed, which are giuen him by pri∣uate Instructions in writing, for the pounding, killing, bleeding, cutting, salting, repacking, pickling, & all other diligences to be vsed in the Slaugh∣ter-house, for the better preseruation of all the Beefes and Hogges, which shall be hereafter packed and shipped for the voyages of this Company.

CLXV.

He shall appoint a trusty man to keepe the doore of the cutting Roome, who shall suffer no man (without good cause) to goe out and in, and to haue a speciall care, that they carrie nothing with them, more then their owne, setting a Watch likewise ouer the windowes, and to search all the Labou∣rers at such times when they leaue worke, and depart the Roome.

CLXVI.

He shall keepe a true Accompt of the Receipts of all the Beefes & Hogs, by their waight, and thereof shall giue a Copie to the Committees (appoin∣ted for that businesse) that thereby they may cause a Warrant to be framed for the payment of the Debt.

CLXVII.

Hee shall likewise keepe a true Accompt of the deliuery of all the said Hogges and Beefes, by the number of peeces (in each Hogshead) & waight, and to what seuerall Ships: plainely setting downe the waste, shancks, Har∣borough victuals, Sewet, Tongues, and the like, distinctly; that the Com∣pany may see, that all is orderly and iustly issued to their vses, and hee shall require sufficient Receipts from the Pursers or others, to whom he shall de∣liuer any thing, that they may serue for his discharge in the Audit of his Accompts.

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CLXVIII.

He shall keepe a true Accompt of the Charges in the Slaughter-house, and of the Salt, Caske, and other things expended there.

CLXIX.

He shall also receiue the Remaines of all the victuals whatsoeuer, which shall heereafter returne home in the Companies Shippes from the Indies or other places, and hee shall giue his Receipts to bee accomptable for the same.

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