Middlesex Sessions:
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27th October 1757 - 9th December 1762

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By Adjournment Thursday the Ninth day of Decemr. 1762

£1200
County Rate.


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John Spencer Colepeper< no role >
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Whereas by Virtue of an Act of Parliament made in the Twelfth year of the
Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second Intituled 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 and there Assembled have full power and Authority from time
to time to make one General rate or Assessment for such Sum or Sums of
Money as the Justices in their Discretion shall thick sufficient to Answer all
and every the Ends and Purposes mentioned in the said Act Now for as much as.
it Appeareth unto this Court that three Four the of the Money of the last Rate
made in September Sessions 1761. being the last proceeding 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 when 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 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
Twelve hundred pounds which this Court doth think necessary to be raised for
the Purposes at [..] 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 Money for the passing and relieving of Vagrants
the respective Sums of Money following that is to say.

The Hundred of Ossulston
Westminster Division

Upon the Parish of St. Margaret Westminster £65..2s..6d
The Parish of St. Martin in the Fields £91..2s..4½d
The Parish of St. George Hanover Square £45..11s..3d

The Parish of St. James within the Liberty of
Westminster } £90..19s..6d

That Part of St. Clement Danes which is in the
Liberty of Westminster } £35..0s..3d

That part of St. Mary le Strand which is in the Liberty
of Westminster } £8..15s..0d

The Parish of St. Ann within the Liberty of Westmr£41..11s..4½d
The Parish of St. Paul Covent Garden £30..8s..1½d

£408..10s..4½d




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