17th February 1774

Parliament Assembled and by the authority of the same That it shall
and may be lawful for the Justices of the Peace in their respective General
or Quarter Session, or the greater part of them then and there Assembled and
by the Authority of the same That it shall and may be lawful for the Justices
of the Peace in their respective General or Quarter Sessions, or the greater
part of them then and there Assembled within the Limits of their Commissions
upon presentment of the Grand Jury at the Assizes or Great Sessions or
General Goal Delivery held for the said County at their Shire Hall or other
building usually made use of for the holding the Assizes or Great Sessions
within such County of the ill State and Condition of any such Shire Hall
or other Building and the necessity of Repairing the same to order and
direct in pursuance of such Presentment such Shire Hall or other Building
to be repaired in such Manner as they in their Directions shall think fit
and shass assess and Rate all and every Sum and Sums of money which
shall be laid out and expended in repairing the same upon the several
Hundreds Lathes Wapentakes Rapes Cities Towns Parishes Townships
Wards or other Divisions of the said County and to cause and direct the
same to be collected levied and paid and the same shall be collected levied
and paid in the same manner and by and to the same Officers and other
Persons and under the same Condition Terms Limitations Restrictions
Pains penalties and forfeitures as other County Rates are ordered and directed
to be assessed rated Collected levied and paid in and by an Act passed 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 County
Rates"

That the said Committee further Report,

That it is their opinion That by the said Act of Parliament the Justices
in their Quarter Sessions are empowered to raise a Sum of Mony
Sufficient to defray the Expence of carrying the Plan of Repairs and