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Craft Customs Of The Ancient Stonehewers, Masons, And Carpenters.
21 . And no master shall attempt to secure for himself another master ' s work , or in any other way to take advantage of him , or to come to any special understanding with his carpenters , so that he may utilise the already prepared woodwork before the other , and thus convey it to his own use , under penalty as provided in the next
( preceding ) article . 22 . And every fellow Craft shall each week pay one penny into the chesb , and on the Craft or anniversary day one groat , so also every master ; which contributions are to be employed to the necessitous sick and poor old masters and fellows .
23 . If a master or fellow be summoned by the young master * to a Craft meeting , and absent himself without reasonable cause , and do not appear , so that he can only be induced to attend under pressure , he shall , for each offence , be fined one ort , and even much more according to the gravity of the offence .
24 . If anyone demand a Craft meeting and wish therein to make a complaint against any one , he shall immediately deposit 6 baz . [ one bazen = four Jcreutzers ] the defendant shall be heard , the case decided as it is just , and the losing party punished as is his due .
25 . In case two masters have a building conjointly , or otherwise act as masters together , f that may they do ; but it shall nob be permitted them to bind an apprentice conjointly , but it is only allowed by the Craft to him who accepted him . In case , however , this one has no further employment for him he may hand him over to another .
26 . And everything that is arranged or debated at a Craft meeting shall be kept secret ; and whoever shall offend against this in any way shall be unremittingly fined 1 fl . 27 . In order that these articles may be rigidly kept , and no one be able to plead ignorance in excuse , every year on St . Matthew ' s
Day ( which day is hereby declared and named as the ordinary Guild day ) these ordinances shall be read to the assembled Craft , in presence of the Guild judge , by the clerk of the Guild , and duly enforced by the Guild judge , together with the sworn masters ( of whom yearly one is to be appointed by the city and one by the country ) ; and all
complaints and strife which arise concerning the Craft shall be carefully heard , protocolled and decided as is meet . 28 . And whoever amongst those who belong to the Guild shall , on the aforementioned anniversary , without honorable or other urgent
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Craft Customs Of The Ancient Stonehewers, Masons, And Carpenters.
21 . And no master shall attempt to secure for himself another master ' s work , or in any other way to take advantage of him , or to come to any special understanding with his carpenters , so that he may utilise the already prepared woodwork before the other , and thus convey it to his own use , under penalty as provided in the next
( preceding ) article . 22 . And every fellow Craft shall each week pay one penny into the chesb , and on the Craft or anniversary day one groat , so also every master ; which contributions are to be employed to the necessitous sick and poor old masters and fellows .
23 . If a master or fellow be summoned by the young master * to a Craft meeting , and absent himself without reasonable cause , and do not appear , so that he can only be induced to attend under pressure , he shall , for each offence , be fined one ort , and even much more according to the gravity of the offence .
24 . If anyone demand a Craft meeting and wish therein to make a complaint against any one , he shall immediately deposit 6 baz . [ one bazen = four Jcreutzers ] the defendant shall be heard , the case decided as it is just , and the losing party punished as is his due .
25 . In case two masters have a building conjointly , or otherwise act as masters together , f that may they do ; but it shall nob be permitted them to bind an apprentice conjointly , but it is only allowed by the Craft to him who accepted him . In case , however , this one has no further employment for him he may hand him over to another .
26 . And everything that is arranged or debated at a Craft meeting shall be kept secret ; and whoever shall offend against this in any way shall be unremittingly fined 1 fl . 27 . In order that these articles may be rigidly kept , and no one be able to plead ignorance in excuse , every year on St . Matthew ' s
Day ( which day is hereby declared and named as the ordinary Guild day ) these ordinances shall be read to the assembled Craft , in presence of the Guild judge , by the clerk of the Guild , and duly enforced by the Guild judge , together with the sworn masters ( of whom yearly one is to be appointed by the city and one by the country ) ; and all
complaints and strife which arise concerning the Craft shall be carefully heard , protocolled and decided as is meet . 28 . And whoever amongst those who belong to the Guild shall , on the aforementioned anniversary , without honorable or other urgent