Middlesex Sessions:
General Orders of the Court
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19th May 1743 - 22nd February 1753

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Several Works done Compleated and finished And it also
appearing to this Court that three fourths of the Money of the last
Rate made in October Sessions last being the preceeding Rate
had been paid and expended to answer the Ends & Purposes
mentioned in an Act of Parliament made in the twelfth Year
of his Said Majesty's Reign Intituled An Act for the more
easy Assessing Collecting & Levying of County Rates Now
forasmuch as it appeareth unto this Court that it is necessary
that a Considerable Sum of Money Should be raised & a Rate
be for that purpose made upon the Towns Parishes & Places
in the sd. County for raising of Money for paying for Timber Etc
and the Several Workmen for the Several Works done & finished
of the aforesaid part of the Said Bridge & for the other Purposes
mentioned in the Said Act of Parliament This Court upon
Consideration of the Premisses 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 raising the Sum
of Eight Hundred Pounds which this Court doth think necessary
to be raised for paying for Timber Etc. And the Several Workmen
for the Several Works done Compleated & finished of the aforesaid
part of the Said Bridge and to answer the other Ends & Purposes
mentioned in the Said Act And to the intent the Same Sum may
be raised for the Purposes aforesaid This Court by virtue of
the Said Act doth Assess upon every Town Parish & Place herein
after mentioned in the respective Hundreds and Divisions in the
Said County of Middx and within the Jurisdiction & Authority
of this Court (according to the Proportion which they have been
usually Assessed towards the raising of Moneys for the passing &
relieving of Vagrants) the respective Sums of money following (that
is to Say)

The Hundred of Ossulston .
Westmr. Division.

Upon the Parish of St. Margaret Westmr . £43.8s.4d
The Parish of St. Martin in the Fields £60.14s.11d
The Parish of St. George Hanover Square £ 30.7s.6d
The Parish of St. James within the Liberty of Westmr. £60.13s
The Parish of St. Paul Covent Garden £20.5s.5d




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