By Adjournment on Thursday the 31st. of May 1759 .

For a Commee to meet
before every Session

Ordered that a Committee of His Majesty's Justices of the peace for this County
be Summoned to meet at Hicks Hall on Wednesday the fourth Day of July
next (being the Wednesday next before the Day on which the ensuing Genl.
Quarter Session of the peace for this County is Appointed to be holden) by
nine of the Clock in the forenoon on particular affairs concerning the
public Business of this County and likewise that a Committee of His Majesty's
said Justices be summoned to meet at Hicks Hall between every General and
General Quarter Session on some Day to be appointed on the County Day in
each Session for the same purpose and such of His Majesty's Justices as
shall be pleas'd to be present at such Committees are desired to give
attendance in time so as to proceed on Business by Ten o'Clock priestly on The Respec
five Days of Meeting.

To Kaise £1000. by a County Rate.
Justices.

By Adjournment on Thursday the 31st: of May 1759.

Thos. Lane< no role > Esqr.
Sr. Wm. Beacham Proctor< no role >
George Green< no role >
Geo: Errington< no role >
Barth Hammond< no role >
Paul Valliant< no role >
Edmond Byron< no role >
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Theod. Sydenham< no role >
Stephen Clarke< no role >
Thomas Nicholl< no role >
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John Fielding< no role >
Philip Dyott< no role > Etc.

Whereas By Virtue of an Act of Parliament made in the Twelfth year
of the Reign of his present Majesty King George the second intitled an Act for the
more easy assessing collecting and levying of County Rates the Justices of the peace
in that part of Great Britain called England within the respective Limits of their
Commissions at their General or Quarter Sessions or the greater part of them
then assembled have full Power & authority from time to time make one General
Rate assessment for such Sum or Sums of Money as the Justices in their
Discretion shall think sufficient to answer all & every the Ends and purposes
mentioned in the said Act Now For as much as it appeareth them to this Court
that three fourths of Money of the last Rate made in June Sessions last past 1758
being the last preceding Rate hath been paid and Expended to answer the Ends
and purposes mentioned in the said Act of Parliament And that it is necessary
that a considerable sum of Money should be raised and a Rate made upon the
Towns parishes and places in the said County for raising of Money to answer the
several Ends and 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 Raising the Sum of One Thousand Pounds which this Court doth think
necessary to be raised for the Purposes aforesaid And to the Intent the same Sum may
be raised for the purposes aforesaid This Court by Virtue of the said Act Doth
asses upon every Town parish and place herein after mentioned in the respective
Hundreds and Divisions in the said County of middlesex and within the Jurisdiction
and Authority of this Court (according to the proportion they have been usually
assessed towards raising of Moneys for the passing and relieving of Vagrants)
The respective Sums of Money following that is to say.

Verte.