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Image 238 of 46628th July 1786


That your Petitioners the more Effectually to compel
an Observance of this Regulation have almost ever since kept
a Beadle at 12s. P Week in addition to the Street Keepers to
look after the Loading of Carts on the different Stands and to
bring such as Offended against the Laws and Regulations by
Summons either before a Court of the Fellowship or before some
Magistrate of this City to be Punished, but the Court of
Assistants having no Power n themselves and the Magistrate
not having Jurisdiction to Punish as the Orders of Sessions
now Stand without the weight of the Load being fully
proved, your Petitioners humbly conceive that if the annexed
Regulations were added to the present Orders the same would
greatly relieve the said inhabitants would occasion a more
equal Division of Work amongst the different Carmen without
the least prejudice to the Merchants as your Petitioners are
willing to prove to the Satisfaction of this Honourable Court

Your Petitioners also humbly conceive that the Hour
of Six instead of Seven in the Winter, for the Carts to be
on the Stand would not be too soon, and would serve both
the Merchants and your Petitioners much better, and if this
Honorable Court would please to increase the fine on a
Breach of the 10th. Article of the present Orders to present the
Carmen coming sooner that 4. in Summner and 6. in Winter
on the Stands to 20s, or such greater Sum (than it now inflicts,)
as this Honorable Court should in their Superior Judgment
think fit, the same would greatly relieve the said Inhabitants,
and would also be, more beneficial to your Petitioners and the
free Carmen in General

Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray [..] that
this Honourable Court will be pleased to add
the annexed Regulations to the present Orders of
Sessions or such part thereof as this Honorable
Court in their Wisdom shall think proper
with an Adequate Penalty for the Breach
thereof And that this Honourable Court will be
further




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