Middlesex Sessions:
General Orders of the Court
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28th February 1734 - 14th April 1743

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two Several Orders And also two Several Rates or Assessmts
upon every Town Parish and Place in the said County for
raiseing the Sum of Eight Hundred Pounds upon each
Rate or Assessment to repair or rebuild the said Bridges and
to Answer the other Ends & Purposes mentioned in an Act
of Parliament made in the Twelfth Year of his said
Majestys Reign Intituledan Act for the more easy assessing
Collecting and levying of County Rates And Whereas
it appeareth to this Court at this present Session that the
said Bridge called Brentford Bridge hath not been yet rebuilts
And that the Work is now carring on to Rebuild the Same
And that all the Money raised on the first Rate or Assessment
had been paid and Expended to Answer the Endsand purposes
mentioned in the said Act And that three fourths of the
Money collected by Virtue at the said last Rate have been
also paid and Expended to Answer the Ends and Purposes
mentioned in the said Act which said last mentioned Rate
is the last preceding Rate made upon the Towns Parishes &
Places in the said County for raising Money for the Ends &
Purposes mentioned in the aforesaid Act Now for asmuch
as it appeareth to this Court that it is necessary that a
considerable Sum of Money should be raised and a Rate be
for for that purpose made upon the Towns Parishes & Places
in the said County for raiseing of Moneys for the Carrying on
the Rebuilding the said Bridges and for the other purposes
mentioned in the said Act of Parliament This Court upon
Consideration of the Premises is of Opinion And doth
accordingly Order that a General Rate be made and
Assessed upon every Town Parish or Place in the said
County for raiseing the Sum of Sixteen Hundred Pounds
which this Court doth think Necessary to be Roused to
defray the Charge of Rebuilding the said Bridges And to
Answer the other Ends and Purposes mentioned in the
said Act And to the Intent that the said Sum may be




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