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<HEAD>THE Watermen and Lightermen's CASE, In Relation to the BILL before this Ho|nourable Hou&s;e, <HI>For the Explanation of former Laws made, touching</HI> Wherrymen <HI>and</HI> Water|men, <HI>and Joyning the</HI> Lightermen <HI>to them, and providing one Good Government for both.</HI></HEAD>
<P>BY which Laws the Lord Mayor and Aldermen (among&s;t other things) were to Elect and Appoint Eight Watermen, Yearly, to be called Over&s;eers and Rulers; and they were to make &s;uch further Rules and Orders, as &s;hould to them &s;eem nece&s;&s;ary for the Government of the whole, but have no Power by the &s;ame Laws, to enforce due Obedience to &s;uch Rules and Orders, by which means the Intent of tho&s;e Laws are rendred in|effectual, by Rude and Di&s;orderly Watermen, taking Advantage there|of, and daily committing Notorious Abu&s;es, to the hazarding Per&s;ons Lives and Goods upon the River of <HI>Thames.</HI></P>
<P>For Remedy whereof, the &s;aid Bill makes the Watermen and Ligh|termen one Society and Company, and Impowers the &s;aid Lord Mayor, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Yearly to Elect Eight Watermen and Three Lightermen to be called Rulers and Over&s;eers, who together with A&s;&s;i&s;tants, (by the Watermen and Lightermen re&s;pectively to be cho&s;en) are to make good Rules, Orders, and Con&s;titutions, for the better and more &s;afe conveying Pa&s;&s;engers and Goods by Water, and to annex rea&s;onable Penalties thereto; which &s;aid Rules are to be approved of, or al|tered by the Lord Chief Ju&s;tices, Lord Mayor, and Court of Al|dermen.</P>
<P>And the &s;aid Court of Aldermen having peru&s;ed the &s;aid Bill, and finding the &s;ame intended only for a Publick Good, have approved there|of, and &s;ignified the &s;ame by their Order dated the <HI>27th</HI> of <HI>Feb.</HI> 1699.</P>
<P><HI>Note,</HI> For want of Power to make good Orders , and to enforce due Obedience thereto, the poor Watermen who have been Maimed in the Wars, as well as the Aged and Decayed, are deprived of their Work and Labour, and Pa&s;&s;engers di&s;turbed in taking Boat and Landing , by the Rude and Ungovernable Watermen, notwith&s;tanding all that the Rulers of the &s;aid Company could do to the contrary; and for want of Power to inforce due Obedience, as afore&s;aid, a mo&s;t &s;ad and deplorable Di&s;|after of late happened, in that near Fifty Pa&s;&s;engers were drowned in coming from <HI>Grave&s;end</HI> in the Tilt-Boat, and &s;maller Accidents fre|quently happen; as al&s;o for want of Order and Government among&s;t Lightermen, His Maje&s;ty's Cu&s;toms and other Duties from Coals are le&s;&s;ened, and Owners of Ships, Ma&s;ters, Seamen, and Labourers, as frequently damnified; in as much as they often quarrel concerning ta|king their Turns in unlivering Coals and Merchandize from Ships, and refu&s;e to work, to the great Hindrance and &s;taying of Ships from pro|ceeding in their re&s;pective Voyages.</P>
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