RUSSIA COMPANY'S ARTICLES ad. 



1555- 



panie to Inhabite and dwell at your accustomed diets, 

 with warehouses, sellers, and other houses of offices 

 requisite, and that none of the inferiour ministers of what 

 place or vocation soever he be, doe lie out of the house 

 of the Agents without licence to be given, and that every 

 inferiour officer shalbe obedient to the orders, rules and [I. 260.] 

 governments of the said Agents, and in case any dis- 

 obedient person shall be found among any of them, then 

 such person to be punished for his misbehaviour, at the 

 discretion of the said Agents, or of one of them in the 

 absence of the other. 



6 Item, if any person of the said ministers shall be of 

 such pride or obstinacie, that after one or two honest 

 admonitions, hee will not bee reformed nor reconciled 

 from his faultes, then the saide Agents to displace every 

 such person from the place or roume to him heere 

 committed, and some other discreete person to occupie 

 the same, as to the saide Agents by their discretions shal 

 seeme meete. 



7 Item, if any person shall bee found so arrogant, that 

 he will not be ordered nor reformed by the said Agents 

 or by one of them in the absence of the other, then the 

 sayde person to bee delivered to the Justice of the 

 countrey, to receive such punishment, as the lawes of 

 the countrey doe require. 



8 Item, that the saide Agents and factours shall daily 

 one houre in the morning conferre and consult together 

 what shall bee most convenient and beneflciall for the 

 companie, and such orders as they shall determine, to bee 

 written by the Secretarie of the companie in a booke to 

 bee provided for that purpose, and no inferiour person 

 to infringe or breake any such order or devise, but to 

 observe the same exactly, upon such reasonable paine as 

 the Agents shall put him to by discretion. 



9 Item, that the said Agents shall in the ende of everie 

 weeke, or oftener as occasion shall require, peruse, see 

 and trie, not onely the Casshers, bookes, reckonings and 

 accounts, firming the same with their handes, but also 



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