An Authentic Copy of the Charter and Bye-Laws of the City of Rochester; With an Abstract of the Customal (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1809 Excerpt: ...Street of the City, the Duties following, viz. For every Cart or Waggon laden with any Merchandize or other Burthen----0 0 4 For every 20 Heifers or young Cattle, Oxen, or Kyne-----004 For every 20 Sheep----0 0 2 For every Horse laden with any Burthen called a Pack----0 0 1 For every Person not being free that puts Wares to Sale in the Markets or Fairs, for shewing their Wares there-- 0 0 1 D Folio 88 For all Persons not being free of the Cily, which should creel any Standing in the Fairs or Markets to put their Waves to Sale 0 0 4 For every Sack of Bread Corn or Grain, or Grain pitched or sold in the Market or Fair, one Dish full containing one pint. '--On which 1st day of June, 24 Henry 6, the same King incorporated the Citizens by the name of the Bayliff and Citizens, and granted and confirmed to them all their former privileges; and that the Bayliff and Citizens enjoyed the said privileges from thence till 14th Dec. 1 E. 4. who, by his Charter, did incorporate them by the name of the Mayor and Citizens of the City of Rochester, and did grant that they should enjoy the privileges, &.C Afterwards the said Attorney-General confessed the plea to be true, and judgment was entered for the City. Note.--This was exemplified under the Seal of the Court 29th May, 1620, 18 Jac. 1 Q. where the exemplification is. 92/oll2 An English Copy of a Charter granted per King Charles the First to the Mayor and Citizens, dated at Cambury the 7th of August, in the 5th year of his lleign, 1629. 23d Sept. 1637, An Order that no Person shall give his voice for choosing of Mayor but those that are Freemen and Honseholders within the said City, Hundred, and Liberty, and that bear Watch and Ward, Lot and Scot to the City. Voices to be given by 3 of the Clock in the afternoo...