May 1796.

to solicit Certificates of such Facts from the Clerk
of the Subdivision Meeting with all Convenient
dispatch at the expence of the County.

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 Intitled "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 Commissioners at
their General or General 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 us much as it appeareth unto
this Court that more than three fourths of the Money
of the last Rate made in december Sessions 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 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 proportion they have been
actually assessed towards raising of Money for the passing &
relieving of Vagrants the respective Sums of Money following

(that is to say)