Mary 1800.

is hereby earnestly Recommended that in every Case
where the assent to two Justices is necessary to the
binding our any child as an Apprentice that the
two Magistrates be present and acting together as by
Law intended at the time of such binding and that
they require the Attendance of the Master and Appren-
-tice before them at the same time; and that the
Magistrates do make a strict Enquiry and Examination
into the Situation in Life and circumstances of the
Person proposing to take such Apprentice and that
they satisfy themselves by proper Enquiries of the
fitness of such Person to provide for and maintain
such Apprentice in a suitable manner with sufficient
and proper Meat, Drink and Cloathing and to
teach and instruct such Apprentice in his business
and that such Person is in all other respects fit
and proper to be entrusted with the Care and
Instruction of such Apprentice and It is further
Ordered That a Copy of this Resolution be trans-
-mitted to the several Magistrates acting in and
for this County and also to the Town Clerk of the
City of London and the respective clerks of the peace
for the City and Liberty of Westminster for the
Counties of Essex, Kent, Surrey and Herts to be by
them laid before the Magistrates at their respective
Sessions of the peace.

By adjournment same Day.

The Chairman having informed the Court
that Mr.. John Powsey< no role > late Surveyor of the District
of Saint John Wapping Saint Anne Limehouse St..
Catherines Ratcliffe< no role > , Mile End Old Town Poplar
and Blackwall under the Act of Parliament for
the further and better Regulation of buildings
and Party Walls Etc. was Dead Resolved That the
Election of a proper Person to succeed to the said
vacant Office be on the County day of the next
Session and that such Election be by Ballot to
Commence at Ten, o' Clock in the forenoon and close