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Courts when they fee caufe; and, in all cafes not provided for by this aft, or by the APPENDIX. bye-laws agreed upon by the General Court, they may act as they think meet.

XXIV. Directors may appoint Subcommittees to transact business.

XXV. The Secretary to be chofen by the Court of Directors, to receive notice of his election, and to take an oath of fidelity to the Company, which is to be adminiftered by the Directors.

XXVI. Notice to be given to perfons appointed agents or fervants to the Company. XXVII. Directors to adminifter to agents or fervants, an oath of fidelity to the Company.

XXVIII. Secretary, agent, or fervant, neglecting or refufing, for 40 days after receiving notice, to take the oath, vacates his office.

XXIX. Members of the Company may meet at any convenient time and place, to chuse Directors, make bye-laws, &c. Such Meeting (the Chairman or deputy Chairman to be always one, except in cafes hereafter mentioned) shall be called a General Court of the Company.

XXX. One General Court in a Year at the leaft to be called, by the Court of Directors.

XXXI. In cafes of failure to call them by the Court of Directors, any 5 of their fucceffors may call a General Court in the month of May next enfuing.

XXXII. On a written requifition from any 9 or more members, at any time, the Directors fhall call a General Court, within 20 days. In case of refufal, the said 9 or more members, on 14 days' notice in the London Gazette, may fummon a General Meeting, and appoint one of themselves chairman, and may hear any complaint against any Director or Directors. In cafe he or they fhall not clear him or themfelves, then, within 20 days, (notice being published as aforefaid) another General Court shall meet and determine the matter, and may remove fuch Director or Directors, and elect one or more Directors in his or their place.

XXXIII. The General Meeting may make bye-laws and inflict penalties, so that the fame be not repugnant to the laws of the realm. The penalties to be applied to the ufe of the Company.

XXXIV. First General Court to be held in July, 1791.

XXXV. Chairman to have the cafting vote, when the number of votes is equal, either in a General Court, or in a Court of Directors.

XXXVI. A Court of Directors, to be held at least every month; and, if the Chairman or deputy Chairman neglect or refuse to call fuch Court, then 5 or more Directors, on reasonable notice in the London Gazette, may fummon the faid Court. XXXVII. The Chairman or deputy Chairman, within 2 hours after the Meeting of the Directors, fending notice of their inability to attend, the other Members may proceed to business without them.

XXXVIII. Books by the name of "The Ledger of the Capital Joint Stock of the Sierra Leona Company," and "The Transfer-book of the Sierra Leona Com

pany,"

APPENDIX. pany," to be kept, fworn to by the accomptant, if required; and, from time to time, to lie open for inspection.

XXXIX. Shares to be transferrable by an entry in the transfer-book, figned by the party, to this effect.

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I A. B. dotransfer and affign unto C. D. his executors, adminiftrators, and Affigns, Share or Shares [as the cafe may be] in the Capital Joint Stock of the Sierra Leona Company, and all benefit arising therefrom. Witness my hand, this in the Year of our Lord

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I A. B. by virtue of a Letter of Attorney from C. D. dated the Day of Year of our Lord do in the name and on the behalf of the faid C. D. transfer and affign unto E. F. his executors, administrators, and affigns, the Share or Shares of the faid C. D. in the Capital Joint Stock of the Sierra Leona Company, and all benefit arifing therefrom. Witness my Hand, the

in the Year of our Lord

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XL. No perfon to claim as executor, administrator, or devifee, without producing the probate or letters of administration, of which a memorandum must be entered in the transfer-book, which shall lie open for inspection, without fee.

XLI. For preventing doubts with refpect to the credit of the Company, an account of their debts, credits, and capital, figned by the Chairman, deputy Chairman and 5 other Directors, fhall be published in the London Gazette in April, every year. XLII. The Directors to appoint officers and fervants, continue them while they think fit, and eftablish their falaries.

XLIII. Shares in the Capital Joint Stock to be deemed personal estate. XLIV. His Majefty impowered to grant, and the Company to hold, the exclufive right of fuch part of the Peninfula of Sierra Leona, as may be vefted in His Majefly, by grant or purchase from the native kings; and the Company empowered to purchafe, if they think fit, the refl of that peninfula, from the native kings, &c.

XLV. The ships of the African merchants, may, as heretofore, anchor in Sierra Leona and Camaranca rivers, may build temporary tents and huts on fhore, and may purchase from the natives, ivory, wax, camwood, and provifions, fire-wood and water, without any new charge.

XLVI. Proceedings, in pursuance of this act, not to be quashed or vacated for want of form.

XLVII. Actions for things done in pursuance of this act, to be brought within 6 months after the fact. The defendant may plead the general issue, and give this a& in evidence, and then the jury fhall find for the defendant, or the Court of Seffion in Scotland fhall dismiss the fuit, and the defendant have treble cofts.

XLVIII. The duration of this act, and confequently of the Sierra Leona Company, limited to 31 years from the firft day of July, 1791.

XLIX. This act to be deemed a public act.

LIST

LIST OF THE ORIGINAL SUBSCRIBERS

TO THE ASSOCIATION FORMED IN 1792, FOR CULTIVATING

THE ISLAND OF BULAMA;

AND BY THAT MEANS PROMOTING THE

CIVILIZATION OF AFRICA.

This fubfcription was raised in London and Manchester, upon lands to be purchased, from the native chiefs of the Island of Bulama, and the adjacent parts of the continent. Abfentee Subfcribers paid £60 per 500 acres, and Colonist Subscribers £30 per 500 acres :-8680 acres were to be given gratis to the governor and the other officers who

were to conduct the first expedition.

The figures annexed to the names denote the number of acres subscribed for. The names marked with asterisks come under the Manchester subscription.

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