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and
for Vellam for the Address £1..19..4 for Law charges, Sloane agt. pawlet
and £ 1..11. for Coach hire & porteridge & petty Expenses on Accot. of
the board for a year to Christmas 1730.
Upon Considering of those disbursements the Said Comittee had
recourse to the Statute of the 13th. &14th. & of the 15th. of Charles the
Second concerning the Militia whereby the persons Chargeable
with horse or foot soldiers are to provide them with Armes and
Accoutrements powder & Bullett and to pay the Muster Master
under Several penaltys for defaults which penaltys are to be
applyed to the uses in the default of which they [..] were imposed
And the Lientenancy have thereby power to lay fitting rates (in
manner there in mencaned) for furnishing amunition & other
necessarys (now comonly called Trophy money) and thereout to
dispose of what they think fit to the Inferiour officers for their
pains & Encouragement And have also power thereby to
appoint a Treasurer and Clerk.
And the said Comittee are informed That the Lientenancy of
this County had heretofore the use of Hicks Hall
for their meetings
and that the rent of £21..10 P Annm for rooms for that purpose
was first charged in the accot. for the year 1716 and the said
Comittee obsence That £12 is charged for the Messengers delivering
Warrts. for the Assessing and Collecting every Levy of Trophy
money besideds his sallary and that such charge was first
allowed in the Accot. for 17 [..] Which warrants the said Comittee
conceive may well be delivered by the Inferior Officers of the
Militia, And the said Comittee also observe That three years
Salary of £6 p Ann to the Treasurer is Charged in the present
acct. tho but one years Trophy money it brought into that
Account.
Upon Considering the said Arrears of Trophy money
returned on the present & Standing out upon the former accot.
the said Comittee had recourse to the Statute of the 4th. & 5th. of
Queen Ann whereby It is provided That no Warrants Shall be
Issued to raise any Trophy Money untill the Justices of the
peace at their Quarter Sessions have Examined Stated and
allowed the Account of the Trophy Money last before raised
Levyed and collected for any preceeding Year, & Certifyed
Such Examination under the hands and Seales of four or
more of such Justices unless where it shall appear to the Justices