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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Clarkes of the Ware-houses.

CCLVIII.

THE said Clarkes shall receiue into the Companies Warehouses, all the Spices, Indico, rawe Silke, wrought Silke, Callicoes, Drugs, Carpets, or any other Wares which shall be deliuered them in charge by the Com∣mittees of the said Warehouses, for the vse and accompt of this Company.

CCLIX.

They shall receiue all the said Wares carefully and iustly, by number, waight, or measure, as the Merchandize it selfe shall require, and thereof make true entry in a Booke of purpose, setting downe the Wares of each Ship seuerally, and the commodities of sundry kindes by themselues, that the charge of euery Warehouse may appeare, when any enquirie shall be made thereof.

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CCLX.

They shall giue their attendance with all carefulnes, especially when the Wares are Garboled and repacked, locking vp the dores in time of worke, and suffering no man who shall be imployed in those labours, to depart be∣fore he be searched: against which order, if any of them resist, hee shall be presently dismissed out of the Companies seruice.

CCLXI.

They shal deliuer of the said Goods from day to day vnto those persons, and in such manner as they shall receiue Warrant to performe from the Gouernour or his Deputy, and the Committees of the Warehouses: and the said Warrants they shall reserue for their discharge; noting downe in a faire Booke euery perticular thing deliuered, the time, the parties name, his suerties, tares, trets, price, and euery other circumstance, to make the par∣cell plaine and perfect, and in the Margent to note downe the number of each Warrant.

CCLXII.

They shall keepe a true accompt of all manner of charges which they shall disburse to Porters, Carmen, or the like, in the Warehouses, and of the Caske, or Canuas, which they shall receiue to packe or imbale the Com∣panies Goods: and they shall likewise render a true accompt, of all the Skinnes, Wrappers, Cotten Wools, or other things, which shall be sold to the most aduantage of this Company.