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it, making the capital 800,000/. which has 

 since been increased to 1,200,000/. Of 

 this sum, 1,127,500/. has been called for ; 

 and a further subscription of 2$ per cent, 

 was added in January, 1808. They were 

 to pay 5 per cent, interest for the money 

 advanced, until the docks were com- 

 pleted, and afterwards to make divi- 

 dends not exceeding 10 per cent, per 

 annum. 



The company is under the manage- 

 ment of twenty-one directgrs, eight of 

 whom must be members of the Corpo- 

 ration of London. They are elected an- 

 nually, 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 entitled 

 to vote who hold 500/. stock or up- 

 \vards. 



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 1st 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 INDIA DOCK. 



This company was established by an 

 act of 43 Geo. III. passed the 27th of Ju- 

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

 pital of 200,000^. divided into shares of 

 100/. each, with liberty to increase their 

 capital to 300,OOOJ. if found necessary. 

 In 1806 they were empowered to add 

 100,000/.to their capital, making with the 

 former sum 400,000{. nearly the whole 

 of which has been raised. They were to 

 pay 5 per cent, interest on the money ad- 

 vanced ; and after the docks should be 

 completed, to make dividends not ex- 

 ceeding 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 general meetings are held year- 

 ly, in January and July, at which pro- 

 prietors of five shares and upwards are 

 entitled to vote. They must also be di- 

 rectors of the East India Company, or 

 have been so within two years, or be an 

 agent, husband, consignee, or owner, to 



the value of SOO/. or upwards, of East In- 

 dia 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 repairs 

 as are necessary. These yards are gene- 

 rally 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 DOGGET, 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 physic, 

 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 Uni- 

 versity of Bologna. Though the two 

 names of doctor and master were used a 

 long time together, yet many think that 

 their functions were different, the mas- 

 ters teaching the human sciences, and the 

 doctors those sciences depending on re- 

 velation and faith. Spelman takes the ti- 

 tle of doctor not to have commenced till 

 after the publication of " Lombard's Sen- 

 tences," about the year 1140, and affirms 

 that such as explained that work to tr.eir 

 scho^s were the first that had the apoel- 

 latioRf doctors. 



To pass doctor in divinity^at Gxfov 1, it 

 is necessary the candidate have been iui* 



