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29th September 1781 - 16th December 1782

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Image 32 of 67916th April 1782


The said several Acts of Parliament and that Rates being made an the
Inhabitants the Monies thereby assessed and Collected were by the Collectors
paid into the Chamber of the City of London but such Rates and Collections
turned out insufficient for paying your Petitioner the whole of his said
Damages and Costs for that the Menies named and Collected for your Petitioner
and paid into the said Chamber of London did but amount to the Sum of
£1311.19.4 whereby the same was depoient for discharging your said Petitioner
Damages and Costs by the Sum of £17.10.8 and

That your Petitioners or about the 12th Day of February 1782 by Virtue
of certain other Orders of Sessions did receive out of the said Chamber of London
the said Sum of £1011.19.4 and no more towards his said Damages and Costs

That he had never since received any further Payment or Satisfaction for the
same and that there is now justly die owing and unpaid to your said
Petitioner for the Remainder of his said Damages and Costs so recovered by
him as aforesaid the said Sum of 17 [..] 08 which your Petitioner apprehended
and submits to this Court he is now legally and justly intitled to be paid
and to have the same raised levied and Collected for him by as Rate on th [..]
Inhabitants of the said City according to the Provisions made and the
Directions contained in the said several Acts of Parliament and particular
the Act made and passed in the first year of the Reign of his late Majesty King
George the first Intitil'd an Act for preventing Tumults and Riotons Assemble
and for the more speedy and Effectual punishing the Rioters"

That your Petitioners is informed that your Lordship and
Worship are now for the Benefit and Relief of certain other Persons who
sustained Damages by the Rioters in June 1780 proceeding to make
[..] on the Inhabitants of the said City for Paying and Satisfying
to then the Amount of their Damages and Costs of suit sustained by
such Riots

Your Petitioner therefore humbly Requests and intreats
that your Lordship and Worships will include the said
£17.10.8 in the said Orders and Rates now about to be
made and levied and immediately cause the said £17.10.8
to be raised levied and Collected on the Inhabitants of the




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