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

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to provide and furnish Such carriages and Men, according to the
Warrant aforesaid, who are by the Said Act required to provide
and furnish the Same accordingly, And whereas It is mentioned
in the Said Act that the [..] respective Sums of money by the
Said Act [..] appointed to be paid to the Constable by the Officers
demanding Such Carriages are not in many cases Sufficient to
answer the charge & expences of providing the Same insomuch
that the Said Constables are frequently at great charge over &
above what is received by them of the Said Officers to the great
burthen of the Township of which he is Constable, or else the
Persons performing Such Carriages are greivously oppressed,
for remedy whereof and that the Said [..] overplus
charge may be borne by each County or Riding at the General
charge of Such County or Riding, It is by the Said Act further
Enacted That the Treasurer or Treasurers of each respective
County or Riding Shall without fee or reward pay unto Such
Constable or Constables all & every Such reasonable Sum or Sums
of money So by him or them paid or laid out for Such carriages
over & above what was or ought to have been paid by the
Officer requiring Such Carriages out of the publick Stock of Such
County or Riding, according to Such Rates, Orders, Rules, and
directions as the Said Justices of the peace in their Quarter
Sessions assembled with in their respective Jurisdictions Shall
from time to time during the continuance of the Said Act
make, direct, and appoint (which Orders Shall be made
without fee or reward) Regard being always had to the Season
of the year, and the length & condition of the ways by and
through which Such carriages are to travel, This Court
(upon consideration of Such part of the aforesaid Act of
Parliament as is above recited) being of opinion that the
Constables in this County of Middx will be lifely very often to be
at great charges over & above what will be by them received
of the Said Officers demanding Such carriages as aforesaid,
and that it is requisite and necessary that Sufficient Rates &
allowances Should be Settled & ascertained in Order to Satisfy
and pay unto the Said Constables Such over plus charges on
account of Such carriages Doth for that purpose Order that it
be And It is hereby recommended and referred unto the
Committee of his Majesty< no role > 's Justices of the peace appointed to
State & adjust the publick accounts of the Said County, and




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