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payment, which are as usual, and not of sufficient importance to meritbeing repeated here.

The resolves relative to the different officers, their salaries, duties, andthe mode of their election, are as follow ;

“ Resolved, That a secretary be appointed, at a salary of one hun-dred pounds yearly.

" Resolved, That it is the duty of the secretary that he do issue no-tices of meeting, attend and take the minutes of the company and theircommittees at their several meetings, receive all letters, memorials, andpetitions, write all letters that shall be ordered, and obey all orders ;make out reports of all committees, enter the proceedings of the com-pany in a general minute journal, and those of the several committeesin a committee journal ; and that he attend at stated days for transfer-ring stock, and make regular entries of the same.

“ Resolved, That a pay-clerk be appointed, at a salary of fifty poundsper annum.

" Resolved, That the duty of the pay-clerk be, that he do attend onthe canal every Saturday, and at such other times as shall be requiredby the engineer, to receive the returns from the overseers of the num-ber of labourers employed under them, and to pay them in silver, if re-quired, the amount of their several returns, make up accounts weekly ofthe amount of each week’s payments, and on pasting them verify themon oath, and pay the engineers drafts in town.

“ Resolved, That a treasurer to the company be appointed.

“ Resolved, That an engineer be appointed to the company, for•onducting the navigation.

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