Middlesex Sessions:
General Orders of the Court
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28th October 1789 - 5th December 1795

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May 1795.

for the Governors residence, and that they do cause an Estimate to be
made of the Expence which will attend making such Alterations therein
as may be necessary for that purpose.

By Adjournment same day.

Whereas by virtue of an Act of Parliament madeand passedin
the Twelfth year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second entitled
"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 Forasmuch
as it appeareath unto this Court that more than Three fourths of the Money of
the last Rate made in January Session last being the last 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 are of Opinion and doth accordingly Order that
a General Rate be made and assessed upon every Town Parish and Place
in the said County for raising the Sum of Five Thousand Pounds which
this Court doth think necessary to be raised for the purposes aforesaid This
Court by virtue of the said Act of Parliament Doth Assess upon every Town
Parish and Place hereinafter mentioned in the respective Hundreds and
Divisions in the said County of Middlesex and within the Jurisdiction and
Authority of the Court according to the proportions they have been actually assessed
towards raising of Money for the passing and relieving of Vagrants the respective
Sums following that is to say.




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