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oath, or in such manner as the 

 committee shall deem most expe- 

 dient, that neither they nor any 

 person on their account, or with 

 their privity or iinowledge, have 

 given or promised to give any consi- 

 deration on account of such nomi- 

 nation, either to the director from 

 whom they obtained the same, or 

 to any person on his behalf: and it 

 was agreed to recommend to the 

 court to direct each individual 

 member of the court to do the same. 

 — 1st August, 1798. The court 

 approved this report, and (15th 

 August) each director in office, as 

 well as those out of by rotation (ex- 

 cept Mr. Devaynes) gave explana- 

 tions in writing: — 28th Feb. 1799. 

 It was resolved, lliat every appoint- 

 ment made in consequence of cor- 

 rupt practices be null and void, un- 

 less the parties to whom the ap- 

 pointment is given, shall, upon ex- 

 amination before the committee, 

 make a fair and candid disclosure 

 of all the circumstances attending 

 the same. It was likewise resolved, 

 that each director should in future, 

 on the petition of the writer, whom 

 he nominates, " declare upon his 

 honour to whom he has given the 

 appointment, and that he neither 

 has received himself, nor is he to 

 receive, nor has any other person to 

 the best of his knowledge or belief 



1793, requesting them to declare 

 whether the appointments were 

 given without anypecuniary or other 

 consideration, was considered by 

 the committee; when a discussion 

 arose, whether it should be on oath ; 

 when it was adjourned till the 21st 

 of Jan., and it being then suggested 

 whetlier it would he proper for the 

 committee to proceed in their in- 

 quiry, it was decided in the affirm- 

 ative. 



The committee then proceeded 

 to consider the drafts of the letter 

 to the parents, &c. a draft of a re- 

 port to the court, stating their rea- 

 sons for recommending this mode 

 of investigation, as also the form of 

 a declaration for the persons who 

 have received such appointments- 

 The consideration was adjourned 

 to the 24(h of Jan., when a dis- 

 cussion ensuing thereon, and on the 

 necessity and expediency of the 

 mode of public investigation therein 

 proposed ; it was agreed to post- 

 pone the said report, and to pro- 

 ceed to act agreeably to the autho- 

 rity and instructions already receiv- 

 ed from the court. The commit- 

 tee resolved, that in their opinion 

 the parties to whom each director 

 had given nominations, should be 

 calleduponto stateon what grounds 

 they have received the same, in 

 every case that the committee may 



received, nor is he to receive, any deem it expedient so to do. 



pecuniary consideration, nor any 



thing convertible in any mode into 



a pecuniary beneht on this account." 



The direction being changed in 



April, on the 14th of August, 1799, 



a new committee to investigate the 



truth of the sale of patronage, &c. 



was appointed — 17. Jan. 1800. 



The draft of a letter proposed to be 



addressed to the parents, &c. of 



persons appointed writers since 



The committee then examined, 

 viva voce, its different members, as 

 a preliminary to the proposed mea- 

 sure ; each member declared upon 

 his honour that what he had stated 

 in regard to his appointments was 

 strictly true, and expressed his 

 readiness to confirra the same by 

 his oath. 



28lh Jan. 1 800. The committee 

 met to consider a draft of a report 



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