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it. making the capital 800,000?. which 

 has since been increased to 1,200,0007. 

 Of this sum, 1,127,500/. has been called 

 for; and a further subscription of 2J 

 per cent, was added in January, 1808. 

 They were to pay 5 per cent, interest for 

 the money advanced, until the docks were 

 completed, and afterwards to make di- 

 vidends not exceeding 1 10 per cent, per 

 winum. 



The company is under the manage- 

 ment of twenty-one directors, eight of 

 whom must be members of the Corpora- 

 tion of London. They are elected annu- 

 ally, five going out every year for three 

 years, and six the fourth year. 



Two general meetings of proprietors 

 are to be held every year, in January 

 and July, at which all persons are en- 

 titled to vote who hold 5007. stock or 

 upwards. 



Votes may be given by power of attor- 

 ney. 



The present dividend is 10 per cent, 

 per annum, and becomes due the 1st of 

 January and the first of July. The divi- 

 dends are payable every day, and the 

 company pay the property tax thereon. 



The dock was opened the 27th of Au- 

 gust, 1802. 



EAST IlfniA DOCK. 



This company was established by an 

 act of 45 Geo. III. passed the 27th of Ju- 

 ly, 1803, and was authorised to raise a ca- 

 pital of 200,0007. divided into shares of 

 1007. each, with liberty to increase their 

 capital to 300,0007. if found necessary. 

 In 1806 they were empowered to add 

 100,0001. to their capital, making with 

 the former sum 400,0007. nearly the 

 whole of which has been raised. They 

 were to pay 5 per cent, interest on the 

 money advanced; and after the docks 

 should be completed, to make dividends 

 not exceeding 10 per cent, per annum. 



The company is under the manage- 

 ment of thirteen directors, who must be 

 holders of at least twenty shares of the 

 company's stock, and four of them must 

 be directors of the East India company. 

 They are elected annually in July, and 

 three go out every year. 



Two gc-neral meetings are held year- 

 ly, in January and July, at which propri- 

 etors of five shares and upwards are en- 

 titled to vote. They must also be direc- 

 tors of the East India company, or have 

 been so within two years, or be an agent, 

 husband, consignee, or owner, to the va- 



lue of 500/. or upwards of Easjt India 

 shipping. 



The present dividend is at the rate of 

 5 per cent, per annum, and is payable at 

 Lady-day and Michaelmas, every day ex- 

 cept Fridays, between the hours of 11 

 and 2 o'clock. 



The dock was opened in August, 1806, 



DOCK yards, in ship building, are maga- 

 zines of all sorts of naval stores. The 

 principal ones in England are those of 

 Chatham, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Wool- 

 wich, Deptford, and Sheerness. In time 

 of peace ships of war are laid up in these 

 docks ; those of the first rates mostly at 

 Chatham, where, and at other yards, 

 they receive from time to time such re- 

 pairs as are necessary. These yards are 

 generally supplied from the northern 

 crowns with hemp, pitch, tar, rosin, &c. ; 

 but as for masts, particularly those of the 

 larger size, they are brought from New 

 England. 



DOCKET, or DOGOSET, a brief in writ- 

 ing on a small piece of paper or parch- 

 ment, containing the effect of a larger 

 writing, and annexed to other papers for 

 particular purposes. In law, a docket is 

 necessary in all judgments, and no debts 

 will be entitled to a preference, in debts 

 due from a party deceased, as judgment 

 debts, unless such judgments be regular- 

 ly docketed. 



DOCTOR, a person who has passed all 

 the degrees of a faculty, and is empower- 

 ed to teach or practise the same : thus 

 we say, doctor in divinity, doctor in phy- 

 sic, doctor of laws. 



The title of doctor seems to have been 

 created in the XHth century, instead of 

 master, and established, with the other 

 scholastic degrees of bachelors and licen- 

 tiates, by Peter Lombard and Gilbert 

 Porreus, then the chief divines of the 

 University of Paris. Gratian did the same 

 thing at the same time, in the University 

 of Bologna. Though the two names of 

 doctor and master were used a long time 

 together, yet many think that their func- 

 tions were different, the masters teach- 

 ing the human sciences, and the doctors 

 those sciences depending on revelation 

 and faith. Spelman takes the title of 

 doctor not to have commenced till after 

 the publication of "Lombard's Senten- 

 ces," about the year 1140, and affirms 

 that such as explained that work to their 

 scholars were the first that had the ap- 

 pellation of doctors. 



To pass doctor in divinity at Oxford, it 

 is necessary the candidate have been four 



