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Gun Barrel Proof Act 1868

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22 First-elected Guardians.U.K.

The several Persons who immediately before the Commencement of this Act are under the recited Act the ordinary Members of the Birmingham Company as defined by that Act shall be the first-elected Guardians under this Act, and are herein-after called “the first-elected Guardians:” Provided always, that if at the Commencement of this Act there be any Vacancy in the Office of ordinary Member under the recited Act so that the first-elected Guardians appointed by this Act be less than Fifteen, then the Guardians, if they think fit, within Three Months after the Commencement of this Act, may fill up every such Vacancy, and may elect another duly qualified Person to be an elected Guardian in the Place of every Person who, had he been such ordinary Member at the Commencement of this Act, would have been One of the first-elected Guardians; and every Guardian so elected shall continue in Office only until the First Yearly Meeting of the Birmingham Gun Trade under this Act, but if qualified shall be eligible for Re-election, and the Vacancy shall be filled up at such First Yearly Meeting; but the Person elected to fill up the Vacancy shall continue in Office only so long as the Person in whose Place he is elected would have been entitled under this Act to continue in Office if he had been by this Act appointed One of the first-elected Guardians.

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