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Art. VI. That an exact roll be kept 
of the male inhabitants competent to 
vote ip each parish, continued down to 
the first Tuesday in June; and that no 
person be permitted to give his suffrage, 
whose name is not found in that roll, 
That this roll be delivered in upon cath 
of the Clergyman, Church-wardens, or 
other officers of che parish, to the Church- 
wardens of that parish or district, where 
the poll istaken, 
Art. VII. That the Sheriffs, together 
with all the Justices of the Peace, Mayors, 
Aldermen, and Magistrates, form in 
-each county a grand inquest for allotting 
the districts, in due proportion, to the 
male inhabitants competent to vote, and 
for denominating the same; and that 
such inquest be finally settled, and no- 
tice of the allotment given to each pa- 
rish, comprehended in the district, within 
the term of ten days after the first Tues- 
day in June. 
Art. VII[. That the election of the Re- 
presentatives of the peeple, be madeat the 
principal town or village of the district. 
Art. 1X. That the poll of each district 
be taken by ballot; under the conduct 
of the Church-wardens of the parish in 
the district where the election is made. 
Art. X, The Church-wardens of the 
district, at the close of the poll, shall de- 
clare the name of the person elected, 
and certify the same to the sheriff, in 
order to its being transmitted to the 
Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, 
Art. XI. That the annual Session of 
Parliament shall commence upon the 
first Thursday in November, unless some 
extraorainary event, or urgent national 
business, should make it indisputably re- 
quisite for the Crown to assemble it before 
that period. i 
Art. XII. That the Session terminate 
upon the last day of April, unless the 
national business should be sooner dis- 
patched ; the Crown, nevertheless, hav- 
ing power to prolong the Session beyond 
‘the stated period if any urgent business 
remain unsettled; in which case, the 
Parliament may continue its sitting, to 
the first Tuesday in July. 
Art. XIII. That all Members of the 
Common’s House of Parliament, before 
taking their seats, declare upon oath, 
that they do not hold any office or emo- 
lument at the will of the Crown orof any 
Lord of Parliament, that they will give 
4lue attendance to business, and act with 
fidelity to the people, in the discharge 
ei their important trust. 
Derwwation of the word Mosuic. 
take lea 
[Nov. 1, 
Art. XIV. That all Members serving 
m Parhament, be entitled to reasonable 
“wages, according to the wholesome prac- 
tice of ancient times. : 
Art. XV. Thar all election causes be 
finally decided by Jury, «before the 
Judges of Assize. ; 
Art. XVI. That every person compe- 
tent to give his suffrage as an elector, be 
also esteemed qualified to be elected, to 
serve his country in Parliament. 
(Signed) By order of the Sub-committeey 
G. Branp Hotris*, Chairman. 
May 27, 1780. Your's, &c. 
, ' Carpet Lorrt. 
Exratum. No. I. p. 954, line 17, for 
‘* state in the subject,” read, ‘* state in the 
abstract.” 
EEE 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N that entertaining department of 
your Magazine, called “ Extracts 
from the Port Felio of a Man of Letters,” 
for October last, under the head * Mo- 
saic,” is the following query :—“ Whence 
is the name derived ?’——-Your coneributor 
to that article then proceeds to state, 
that “‘ the first and earliest historic in- 
stance (Exodus xxvil. 17.) of the prac- 
tice of this art is the stomacher, worn by 
the high priest of the Jews. Was the art 
therefore ascribed to Moses?”—At the 
close of the article he says, ‘* Furietti 
wrote De Musaicis, in 1752.” 
Your correspondent’s definition of Mo- 
saic is correct, and his conjecture of its 
etymon ingenious ; yet, as he appears not 
satisfied with it himself, I will endeavour, 
as faras I am able, to resolve his enquiry ; 
at least to keep the question from falling 
into obscurity, and, perhaps, elicit some 
fresh light on the subject, from some more 
Jearned correspondent.—I shall first ex 
amine the word in different languages, 
and draw my inferences from what ap- 
pears to me to be its root. Mosaic, or 
Mozaic, English; Mosaigue, French ;. 
Mosaico, Italian ; Mosaicus, or Musaicus, 
Musivus, opus musivum, museacum vel 
tesselatum, Latin; Kv@G@, Mucaxsoy, 
Méou, Meoimor, Greek ; meaning a 
pavement, picture, or table of cubes, or 
other forms of glass, stone, enamels, 
bricks, &c. highly polished; elegant ; 
proceeding from the Muses; poetical; 
sweet; pleasant. According to which, I 
eave to assume, that the word 
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