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To the Right Honorable the
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Lord Mayor of the City of London
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and the Aldermen of the same City
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in their General Quarter Session
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assembled
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The humble Petition and appeal of the Commissioners
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of his Majesty's Revenue of Excise
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Sheweth
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That by a certain Reassessment or Rate made for the present
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Year on the several Inhabitants and Occupiers of House Lands
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and Tenements within the Parish of Saint Helen London for
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and towards the necessary Releif of the Poor of the said Parish at
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the Rate of three pence in the Pound in pursuance of an Order
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of Vestry made at a Vestry held ofr the said Parish on the twenty-
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-third day of February 1775 and of the several Acts of Parliament
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mentioned relating to the Poor the Excise Office is charged to the
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said Rate or Assessment the Sum of twenty five pounds
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That your Petitioners conceive themselves
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aggrieved by the said Rate or Reassessment
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and therefore appeal against so much thereof
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as relates to that Part of the Excise Office
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that is sctuate within the said Parish of
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St. Helen and pray for such Relief in the
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Premisses as the Court shall think just
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S. ShutzSollr. for the
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