May Session 1790

Altho' the 24th. G. 3d. C 56 Sect 3 Enacts that the Court
may appoint 2 Justices to Contract for the Transportation of Felons yet
I think that is not compulsory upon but optional in the Court, and if that
be not done I think the burthen as well as the power of doing it rests
with and may be exercised by Government and that the Expences of
removing Felons in order to be Transported will in the latter case as
well as the former be legally chargeable on the County.

Geo: Wood< no role >
Mid. Temple
26th. May 1790 ..

Messrs. Bleamire and Barnfather Read their Remarks
thereon, and the Report of the Committee appointed to adjust and settle
the Accounts of the said Richard Akerman< no role > This name instance is in set 4413. being tendered to this Court.

Resolved that the said Case with such additional
Observations as may be made thereon in Writing be referred back to Mr.
Wood for his further Opinion and that the consideration of the Report be
postponed till the next Session.

By Adjournment same day.

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 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
having 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 think 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 more than three fourths of the Money of the last Rate
made in October Session last being preceeding Rate hath been paid and
expended to answer the ends and purposes mentioned in the said Act of
Parliament and that it is necessary 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