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9th December 1773
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from Midsummer 1725 to Christmas 1729 which Time the Accounts
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of the Treasurers were last past, it was found that the Money in hand and
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the Toll since Midsummer 1725 amounted to £479 out of which had been
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paid in part of Mrs Offley's Demand £22..8s..11d a further part of £20 that
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there had been laid out in repair within the said time £409..0s..6d of which
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there was still remaining due and unsatisfyed a Debt to Mr Brown
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the Paviour of £78..3s..0d that the Person employed by the said
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had been allow'd a Salary of Twenty Pounds per Annum which for the
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Time aforesaid amounted to eighty eight Pounds eleven Shillings of which
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Sixty seven Pounds eleven Shillings had been only paid & there remained
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a Debt of twenty one Pounds due to the present Collector; that an Allowance
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of ten Pounds per Annum is charged in the Account for a Person called
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the Treasurers agent amounting for the Time aforesaid to Forty five Pounds
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of which thirty seven Pounds twelve Shillings & seven pence had only been
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paid seven Pounds seven Shillings and five Pence remaining therefore due
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to him; and that there was one guinea P Annum charged in the said
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Account as payable to the
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which was not satisfyed
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amounting to four Pounds fourteen Shillings and six pence so that there
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remained a Debt on the said Toll at Christmas then last of one hundred
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eleven Pounds four Shillings and eleven pence. And the said Comittee
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further Reported that upon finding so large a Debt on
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they
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took into consideration not only what method might be taken for more
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effectually repairing the same for the future but also what had been the
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cause of its bad condition and the decrease of the Revenue and found that
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proper care had been wanting in preserving the limits and extent of the
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as described by the 8th & 9th of William the 3d which describes it in
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a easy exact manner as follows (vizt) "And for preventing all disputes
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"concerning the extent of the said Street Be it further enacted by the
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"Authority aforesaid. That it shall be construed to extend in Length from
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"the Old Toll Post at the
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upper End of the Haymarket
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over against a house
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"formerly called Coventry House, to the
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Phenix Inn
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at the lower end of the said
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and the House over against it and in breadth from the Kennel
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"running by the Houses on the East side running by the Houses on the West side
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