298 APPENDIX TO REPORT OF SELECT COMMITTEE, & c. enacting, ordaining and making laws, statutes, constitutions, decrees and ordinances what- soever in writing, which shall be reasonable and necessary, and which shall appear to them in their sound discretion to be good, wholesome, honest, necessary and requisite, for the good rule and government of the said city, and of all and singular officers and ministers, citizens, artificers and inhabitants whatsoever, residing and adjourning in said city and liberties thereof for the time being, and for the preservation, government, disposal, levying and summoning of the lands, possessions, reversions and hereditaments, to the said mayor, sheriffs, commons and citizens of the city of Dublin aforesaid, hereinafter by these presents granted or assigned, or hereafter to be given, granted or- assigned: And also for the rule and goverment of the markets and fairs within the said city of Dublin, the liberties and limits thereof, and of the people coming and resorting to the said fairs and markets, or any of them, and for their benefit and advantage, We will that the said mayor, sheriffs, citizens, and all and singular officers, artificers and inhabitants of the said city and the liberties thereof, and their factors, servants and ministers in their several offices, functions, services, arts and businesses, within the said city and the liberties thereof, for the time being, shall hold, demean and employ themselves to the'advancement of the public good, common utility and good government of the said city and the liberties thereof, and the provisions of the same, and will consider of the things, causes and matters of the said city, or of the citizens or inhabitants thereof, or which or anywise touch or concern the arts, trades or mysteries in the said city and the liberties thereof, and that the mayor, and the rest of the common council of the said city, for the time being, and their successors, or the major part of them, as often as they have enacted, made, ordained and established in form afore- said, such laws, statutes, rights, ordinances and decrees, can and may make, ordain, pro- vide and inflict such and the like pains, punishments and penalties, by corporal imprison- ments, or by fines, or amerciaments, or either of them, against and upon all persons who shall break through all such laws, rights, ordinances and decrees, or any of them, as to them, the mayor and the rest of the common council of the said city for the time being, or the major part of them, shall seem most necessary, opportune, fit, reasonable and requi- site for the observance of the said laws, ordinances and decrees; and that the mayor, sheriffs, commons and citizens of the said city of Dublin, and their successors, from time to time can and may levy and have the said fines, amerciaments and penalties to the use and behoof of the mayor, sheriffs, commons and citizens of the city of Dublin, and their successors, without the impediment of us, our heirs and successors, or of any the officers or ministers of us, our heirs or successors, without any accounts thereof to us, our heirs or successors, to be rendered thereout; all and every of which laws, ordinances and rights as aforesaid, made or to be made, We desire shall be observed under the penalties therein contained; provided nevertheless, that all and every such laws, statutes, ordinances, rights, decrees, pains, punishments penalties, imprisonments, fines and amerciaments be agreeable and not repugnant or contrary to the laws, statutes, rights or customs of our said kingdom of Ireland : And for the better execution of our will in this behalf, and that this new incor- poration may be first composed of discreet and honest men, We do constitute and make our beloved Thomas Hacket, merchant, to be the first and modern mayor of the said city of Dublin, desiring that the said Thomas Hackett should be and continue in his said office of mayor of said city from the making of these presents until the feast of Saint Michael the Archangel next after the date of these presents, and from thence until another alderman of the said city be into that office in due form elected and sworn, according to the ordi- nances and provisions in these presents hereafter expressed and declared, if the said Thomas Hackett should so long live; and also, we have constituted, assigned, nominated and made, and by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, do assign, nominate, constitute and make our cousin and counsellor, William Earl of Limerick, Sir Joshua Allen, knight, Sir Able Ram, knight, Sir Michael Creagh, knight, William Ellis, esquire, Enoth Redder, merchants, William Gardner, merchant, John Etherington, esquire, Mathew Barn- wall, merchant, Michael Lincoln, John Rogerson, Terence Dermott, senior, James Clarke, Bartholomew Vanhamreigh, Nicholas Lincoln, James Malone, Samuel Claridge, Robert Warren, Terence Dermott, junior, Anthony Sharpe Baker, William Kennedy, Edmund Reilly, Richard Dalton and Daniel M'Naughton, merchants, to be the modern twenty- four aldermen of the said city of Dublin, to continue in their said offices during their natural lives, unless in the mean time for any reasonable cause they or any of them be removed from their said offices and places, whom for such reasonable causes, We will, shall be reasonable by the mayor and the rest of the common council aforesaid, or the major part of them, or unless in the mean time they or any of them be removed by reason of any provision in these presents expressed; We have also assigned, constituted and made, and by these presents for us, our heirs and successors, do assign, nominate, constitute and make, our beloved Thomas Kiernan, brewer, and Edmund Kelly, merchant, to be the modern sheriffs of said city, and of the county of said city, from the making of these presents until the feast Saint Michael the Archangel next following, and from thence until two other of the free burgesses or citizens and commons of the said city be elected, perfected and sworn into said offices of sheriffs of the city and county aforesaid, according to the ordinances and consti- tutions hereinafter in these presents expressed and declared, provided the said Thomas Kiernan and Edmund Kelly shall so long live; and also, We have constituted and made, and for us, our heirs and successors, do assign, nominate, constitute and make, our beloved William Ellis the first and present chambelain of said city, to continue in said office during his go<? d behaviour therein ; and also, We have assigned, constituted and made, and by these presents do assign, nominate and make, our beloved Michael Geraldine, Peter Shee. 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