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Craft Customs Of The Ancient Stonehewers, Masons, And Carpenters.
colled , and such protocol shall be placed before the judge on the anniversary festival , if necessity do not previously require it or the judge ask for it . But anything of importance , such as gross insults and other weighty matters , if they admit of delay , shall be reserved for the general yearly meeting , and if not , be at once laid before the
judge . The same monthly meetings shall be observed in the Main villages . The masters in the country who have employed one or more fellows during the year shall pay the same contributions and deduct the amounts from their journeymen , and pay the same in on the appointed Guild day , if they have no earlier opportunity . Should
herein anyone be guilty of fraud or deceit , the offender shall for each occasion be peremptorily fined lfl . And , as concerns the masters and fellows in the towns and the subscriptions and fines , the third part of which belongs to the Craft , as ordered and decreed at the end of the 21 st article , such monies shall be lent , advanced , and given
to the sick , poor , travelled , or necessitous fellows in their time of need , but in such a manner that the money lent be returned to the box in due course by the Guild masters appointed thereto and properly accounted for , and the rest shall be employed for the necessities of the Craft , but shall , nevertheless , not be spent or flung away in an unfitting and reckless manner .
8 . Whoever , be he master or fellow , shall absent himself without reasonable cause when he has been summoned to a Craft meeting , shall pay a fine to the Craft box of one half the day ' s wage which a master gives to a fellow , in winter or summer time . 9 . And no master or fellow shall come to a Craft meeting with a
gun or other deadly weapon ; and whoever offends against this and keeps it not , be he master or fellow , shall each time be fined to the Craft box for each offence 12 kr . as punishment . 10 . And if it should happen that at a Craft meeting , or any other place , any one should assail the other with unseemly , malicious ,
opprobrious words , give him the lie , raise discord , strife and anger between' the master or fellows , or demean himself indecorously , the same shall be fined a whole day ' s wage , such as is then being paid , whether it be summer or winter . But it might be that one behaved so wrongfully and grossly as to necessitate several fines ; in such a
case such an one shall be punished according to the judgment of the Government , although that class of offence and insult may not usually be under its jurisdiction . 11 . And as often as a monthly meeting of the Craft occurs shall every one , be he master or fellow , be bound , if he know of aught dishonourable against another , partly or totally to have acted in contravention of these ordinances , to so declare it ; but if he do it not , and it
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Craft Customs Of The Ancient Stonehewers, Masons, And Carpenters.
colled , and such protocol shall be placed before the judge on the anniversary festival , if necessity do not previously require it or the judge ask for it . But anything of importance , such as gross insults and other weighty matters , if they admit of delay , shall be reserved for the general yearly meeting , and if not , be at once laid before the
judge . The same monthly meetings shall be observed in the Main villages . The masters in the country who have employed one or more fellows during the year shall pay the same contributions and deduct the amounts from their journeymen , and pay the same in on the appointed Guild day , if they have no earlier opportunity . Should
herein anyone be guilty of fraud or deceit , the offender shall for each occasion be peremptorily fined lfl . And , as concerns the masters and fellows in the towns and the subscriptions and fines , the third part of which belongs to the Craft , as ordered and decreed at the end of the 21 st article , such monies shall be lent , advanced , and given
to the sick , poor , travelled , or necessitous fellows in their time of need , but in such a manner that the money lent be returned to the box in due course by the Guild masters appointed thereto and properly accounted for , and the rest shall be employed for the necessities of the Craft , but shall , nevertheless , not be spent or flung away in an unfitting and reckless manner .
8 . Whoever , be he master or fellow , shall absent himself without reasonable cause when he has been summoned to a Craft meeting , shall pay a fine to the Craft box of one half the day ' s wage which a master gives to a fellow , in winter or summer time . 9 . And no master or fellow shall come to a Craft meeting with a
gun or other deadly weapon ; and whoever offends against this and keeps it not , be he master or fellow , shall each time be fined to the Craft box for each offence 12 kr . as punishment . 10 . And if it should happen that at a Craft meeting , or any other place , any one should assail the other with unseemly , malicious ,
opprobrious words , give him the lie , raise discord , strife and anger between' the master or fellows , or demean himself indecorously , the same shall be fined a whole day ' s wage , such as is then being paid , whether it be summer or winter . But it might be that one behaved so wrongfully and grossly as to necessitate several fines ; in such a
case such an one shall be punished according to the judgment of the Government , although that class of offence and insult may not usually be under its jurisdiction . 11 . And as often as a monthly meeting of the Craft occurs shall every one , be he master or fellow , be bound , if he know of aught dishonourable against another , partly or totally to have acted in contravention of these ordinances , to so declare it ; but if he do it not , and it