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Votes may be given by power of at- 
torney. 
Tlie present dividend is 10 per cent, per 
annum, and becomes due tlie 1st of January 
and the 1st of July. The dividends are 
payable every day, and the company pay 
the property tax thereon. 
The dock was opened the 27tli of Au- 
gust, 1802. 
EAST INDIA DOCK. 
This company was established by an act 
of 43 Geo. III. passed the 27th of July, 
1803, and was authorised to raise a capital 
of 200,0001. divided into shares of 100/. 
each, with liberty to increase their capital 
to 300,000/. if found necessary. In 1806 
they were irapowered to add 100,000/. to 
tlieir capital, making with the former sum 
400,000/. nearly the whole of vyhich has 
been raised. Tliey 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 management 
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 yearly, in 
January and July, at which proprietors of 
five shares and upwards are entitled to 
vote. They must also be directors of the East 
India company, or have been so within two 
years, or be an agent, husband, consignee, 
or owner, to the value of 500/. or upwards, 
of East 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 prin- 
cipal ones in England are those of Cliatham, 
Portsmouth, Plymoutli, AFoolwicb, Dept- 
ford, and Sheeniess. In time of peace sliips 
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 generally supplied from the 
northern crowns with hemp, pitcli, tar, 
rosin, «!tc. ; but as for masts, particularly 
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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 writ- 
ing, and annexed to other papers for par- 
ticular purposes. In law a docket is neces- 
sary 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 regularly docketed. 
DOCTOR, a person who has passed all 
the degrees of a faculty, and is irapowered 
to teach or practise the same : thus we say, 
doctor in divinity, doctor in physic, doctor 
of laws. 
Tlie title of doctor seems to have been 
created in the Xllth century, instead of 
master, and established with the other 
scholastic degrees of batchelors and licen- 
tiates, by Peter Lombard and Gilbert Por- 
reus, 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 mas- 
ter were used a long time together, yet 
many think that their functions were dif- 
ferent, the masters teaching the human 
sciences, and the doctors those sciences de- 
pending on revelation and faith. Spehnan 
takes the title of doctor not to have com- 
menced till after the publication of ^‘Lom- 
bard’s Sentences,” about the year 1140, 
and 'affirms that such as e.\plained that 
work to their scholars were the first tliat 
had the appellation of doctors. 
To pass doctor in divinity at Oxford, it 
is necessary the candidate have been four 
years batchelor of divinity. For doctor of 
laws, he must have been seven years in the 
university to commence batchelor of law, 
five years after which he may be admitted 
doctor of laws. Otherwise in three years 
after taking the degree of master of arts, he 
may take the degree of batchelor in laws, 
aud in four years more that of doctor ; 
which same metliod and time are likewise 
required to pass the degree of doctor in 
physic. At Cambridge, to take the degree 
of doctor in divinity, it is required the can- 
didate have been seven yearn batchelor of 
divinity : though in several colleges the bat- 
chelor’s degree is dispensed witli, and they 
may go out per saltum. To commence doc- 
tor in laws, the candidate must have been 
five years batchelor of laws, or seven years 
master of arts. To pass doctor in physic 
he must have been batchelor in physic five 
years, or seven yeais master of ails. It is 
