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NOTICES.

14. *A Notice by a Printer to the Clerk of the Peace of having a Letter Founder. Press or Types for Printing (1).

To the Clerk of the Peace for (place), or his Deputy of keeping a Press or Types for Printing.

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do hereby declare that I intend to carry on the business of a letter-founder, or maker or seller of types for printing [or of printing-presses, as the case may be], at

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and I do hereby require this notice to be entered in pursuance of an Act passed in the thirty-ninth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Third intituled [set forth the title of the act].

Signed in the presence

of

} (one witness)

(printer.)

15. *Notice for Letting Tolls by Trustees of Turnpike Roads (2).

Let Tolls.

NOTICE is hereby given that the tolls arising at the toll-gate [or tollgates, if more than one], upon the turnpike-road at

called or known by the name of the

tion to the best bidder at the house of

day of

gate, will be let by auc

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the manner directed by an Act passed in the

(1) By stat. 39 Geo. 3. c. 79. (sec. 23.) every person having a print- 39 Geo. 3. c. 79. ing-press, or types for printing, shall cause a notice thereof, signed in

the presence of, and attested by one witness, to be delivered to the

clerk of the peace acting for the county, stewartry, riding, division or

place, or his deputy, before he can legally use the same.

(2) By the Act of 3 Geo. 4. c. 126. (as amended by 4 ib. c. 95. 3 Geo. 4. c. 126. sec. 54.) the trustees or commissioners of turnpike-roads are authorized at a public meeting, to let the tolls to farm, causing at least one month's previous notice to be given of the time and place of letting, by affixing the same to the turnpike-gate or gates, and by advertisement in some public newspaper circulated in that part of the county, and specifying in such notice the sum which the tolls produced in the preceding year, and such other particulars as are mentioned in the above form.

NOTICES.

Let Tolls

reign of his (or her) Majesty, "For regulating Turnpike-roads :"
which tolls produced last year the sum of £
above the ex-
penses of collecting them, and will be put up at that sum; whoever
happens to be the best bidder must at the same time pay one month
in advance (if required) of the rent at which such tolls may be let,
and give security with sufficient sureties to the satisfaction of the
trustees of the said turnpike-road for payment of the rest of the mo-
ney monthly, (or in such other proportions as shall be directed).
A. B. Clerk to the trustees of the said
turnpike-road.

Loss, &c.(goods).

16. *Notice of the Loss and Abandonment of (1) Goods to an Un

derwriter.

SIR,

WHEREAS by a policy of insurance bearing date on or about the

day of

Recital of loss.

of L
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18 and subscribed by you, you did insure the sum on goods on board of the ship

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and against the risks therein mentioned. AND WHEREAS during the said voyage the said ship with the said goods on board thereof struck on a rock, and was with difficulty got to the side of a wharf at or near where she now lies full of water, and the said goods being therein have been and are wetted, damaged and spoiled, and thereby the said voyage is lost, and a toNotice of aban- tal loss of the said goods has arisen. Now therefore, I, the owner of the said goods, whose name is hereunto subscribed, do hereby give you notice of the said loss received, from Messrs. dated, &c. AND I do hereby give you notice that I do hereby abandon and resign to you and the other underwriters upon the said policy on the said goods, the said goods so insured as aforesaid, and all profit, benefit and advantage whatsoever, which may arise from the same, and I do hereby give you notice that I am ready and willing to execute and deliver my power of attorney or authority enabling you to demand and recover and receive any proceeds to arise from the said goods, and I do hereby require you to pay the

(1) See also ante, pp. 5, 11.

amount of your subscription on the said policy, a total loss of the said goods having happened within the true intent and meaning of the said policy.

Dated this

To &c.

day of, &c.

(owner).

NOTICES.

Loss (ship).

17. A Notice of a Meeting of Arbitrators to make their

SIR,

Award (1).

WE (arbitrators) hereby give you notice that we shall meet at, &c.

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us by virtue of a bond, &c. (as the case may be). AS WITNESS, &c.

To (parties in difference).

(Arbitrators).

Meeting (award).

18. *Notice of Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of their

Meeting

purposing to Contract for the supply of a Workhouse, or for (parishioners). Building a Poorhouse (2).

NOTICE is hereby given that a public meeting to consult the
owners or occupiers of lands, tenements or hereditaments in the
parish of
assessed after the rate of £

per annum,

(1) In order to the validity of an award the notice must be given to the parties in difference of the time and place of meeting of the arbitrators, Doddington v. Hudson, 1 Bingh. 384.

(2) By stat. 55 Geo. 3. c. 157. when any contract shall be entered into for the furnishing any articles or materials for the workhouse of any

SVP. VOL. III.

NOTICES.

Meeting (parishioners).

about hireing, purchasing or building [as the case shall be] a house
or houses, and providing for the maintenance and employment of the
poor pursuant to the statute of the twenty-second year of George the
Third (or other act), and for entering into contracts for that purpose,
will be held at
day of at in the forenoon.
(Churchwardens and Overseers).

the

Meeting (statute duty).

19. *Notice to be given by the Constable, Headborough, &c. to the Inhabitants, of a Meeting to be held under the Highway Acts (1).

13 Geo. 3. c. 78.

NOTICE is hereby given that a vestry or public meeting will be held on the

day of

at
next at the hour of
in the
noon, in order to consult about the times when it will
be most convenient for the inhabitants of this parish to be ex-
cused from being called forth to perform their statute-duty, accord-
ing to the indulgence given them by the Act passed in the thirteenth
year of the reign of his Majesty King George the Third, "For the
Amendment and Preservation of the Highways."

Dated the

day

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A. B. (Constable, Headborough), &c.

parish or place, or for the erecting of any buildings, the expenses of which are to be borne out of the poor-rates, the churchwardens and overseers of the poor or other persons having the care thereof, shall cause notice of their intention to enter into contracts for that purpose, specifying the time and place of their meeting, and of the security which will be required for the performance of such contracts, which shall be affixed on the outer door of the church, or inserted in one or more of the public newspapers most generally circulated in the neighbourhood, seven days at the least previously thereto.

(1) By 13 Geo. 3. c. 78, it is required that in all cases where a vestry or public meeting of inhabitants is intended to be holden on the subject of the repair of the highways under that act, public notice shall be given at the church or chapel, of the day, hour and place of holding such meeting, on the Sunday next preceding (which shall be three days before the day of meeting), and also like notice specifying the purpose of the meeting be at the same time fixed upon the door of the said church or chapel, or if none there, upon some other public building or place.

NOTICES.

20. A Notice or declaration by the Trustees of a Debtor in a Deed Non-conformity (debtor). of Trust for Creditors, of Non-Conformity of Debtor.

Be it known unto all whom it may concern, that the within named (debtor) hath not conformed to the provisions in the within written indenture contained, which on his part are thereby required to be observed, inasmuch (1) as that he has neglected and refused to make a full disclosure of his estate and effects, and otherwise to assist in the execution of the trusts of the within written indenture, as thereby is required of him concerning the same. Wherefore, and for other sufficient and lawful reasons and causes, and by virtue of the power within contained enabling us in that behalf, we do hereby declare the licence and protection by the within written indenture given to him by us, and other his several creditors parties thereto, upon the condition of such conformity, to be null and void, and all benefit thereof to him the said (debtor), under or by virtue of the same, to be forfeited and lost, to all intents and purposes whatsoever. AS WITNESS our hands this

day of

(Trustees).

21. A Notice by the Mortgagor to the Mortgagee of his intention Pay off mortto Pay off the Mortgage Money (2).

gage.

SIR,

I hereby request you will take notice, that I intend on the

day of

now next ensuing, (being six calendar months from

(1) The cause of the debtor's forfeiture of his licence should, for the justification of the trustees, be mentioned in the notice. (2) A mortgagee is not obliged to take back his money after the day appointed for payment in the proviso without receiving six months' previous notice of such payment from the mortgagor; see Sharpnell v. Blake, 2 Eq. Ca. Ab. 603. pl. 34, and vide also 2 Ca. Op. 51, because as

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Cause of forfeiture.

Mortgagee not compellable to

take back his money without

six months'

notice.

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