April 1778

several Rates under the direction of Your Memorialists 10 [..]
a Year and as the Seite of the present Sessions house is comp [..]
at 532 square Yards the expence of new paving the same in [..]
manner the rest of the Street is done will amount to £220 be [..]
the purchasing and fitting up a Watch and Engine house [..]
the Stead of the present which is estimated at £300 at lea [..]

That upon its being formerly intended [..]
Erect a New Sessions house upon the Seite of the present Y [..]
Memorialists were desirous as far as in them lay of doing [..]
thing in their power to accommodate Your Worships with [..]
such additional Ground as was required for that purpose

Your Memorialists ther [..]
most humbly pray Your Worships to take the
premises into Consideration and to make Y [..]
Memorialists such Satisfaction as well for the
loss they will sustain in the Land Tax and
parochial Taxes as aforesaid as for the Expe [..]
they will beat in new paving the Seite of
the present Session House and purchasing
and fitting up a Watch and Engine house
as to Your Worships shall seem meet And
that Your Worships would be pleased to
Cause such Clauses to be inserted in the [..]
intended Act as may be necessary to enabl [..]
the Commissioners thereby to be appointed
pay or perform the same

By Order of the Commission [..]
Jno. Cocker< no role > Clerk

It was Moved that a provision be made in the Bill
depending in parliament for enabling the Justices of the peace fo [..]
County of Middlesex to Sell the present Session house for the said
County and for enabling them to build another Session house