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Corporations.
Oaths required by several charters; altered by 11 & 12 G. 3. c. 19. s. 13.
Officers and members, tho’ sworn, yet liable to prosecution by the not observing requisites at swearing:
persons duly elected into office or franchise in corporations not ousted or prosecuted on objection to the swearing, if the legal oaths in fact taken;
deemed legal members; and acts valid, as if sworn pursuant to directions of charters.
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>XXI. And whereas by the charters of several boroughs and corporations in this kingdom certain oaths are required to be taken by the several officers and members of such boroughs and corporations in the presence of, and to be administered by, the persons in such charters respectively mentioned: and whereas several officers and members of such boroughs and corporations, though they have been duly elected, and though they have taken the several oaths required by the said respective charters, are nevertheless subject to prosecutions, by reason that the several requisites, directed by the said charters, have not been observed at the swearing of such officers and members: for remedy whereof, and for the more effectual quieting such corporations, be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no person, who hath been duly elected into any such office or franchise, shall hereafter be ousted out of any such office or franchise, in any ways sued, molested, or prosecuted, for or upon account of any objection, which shall or may be taken to the swearing such officers or members, provided that such officers and members shall in fact have taken the oaths required by law: and such officers and members shall be deemed legal officers and members of such boroughs and corporations; and all corporate acts, which have been done by them, shall have the same force and effect, as if such officers and members had been respectively sworn pursuant to the directions of the said respective charters.
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