Middlesex Sessions:
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Image 73 of 50523rd June 1796


September 1796.

By adjournment same Day.

The following Memorial of Mr.. Joseph Burchell< no role > the
County Treasurer being laid before the Court and Read Vizt.

To the Worshipfull His Majesty< no role > 's Justices of the peace
for the County of Middlesex in Session Assembled.

The Memorial of Joseph Burchell< no role > Treasurer
Sheweth

That in Consequence of an Act of
Parliament passed in the 34th. Year of the Reign of his present
Majesty empowering the Justices in Session to Order, recompence
and Satisfaction to Treasurers for their extraordinary trouble
Labor and expence's in transacting and negetiating the business
and duty of their respective Offices whilst the Militia is embodied
and in actual service Your Memorialist did in September
Session 1794. make application for such recompence and satisfaction
for his services when the Magistrates were pleased to Order the
Sum of one hundred and Fifty Guineas to be paid to Your
Memorialist

That in the discharging of such Duty your
Memorialist is employed in transacting business with the Treasurers
of the several Counties and the Overseers of the several Parishes in
this County in the Examination and settling Accounts of monies
paid and Receive touching the relief of the families of Militia
Men in Number about 600.

Your memorialist therefore availing himself of
the benefit of such Law solicits such recompence and
Satisfaction as the Court shall think fit to Order and direct
for his Services from September 1794. to September 1796.

Resolved That Mr.. Joseph Burchell< no role > the County
Treasurer be Allowed the Sum of £200. as a Recompence for
the trouble and Expence he has been put to in consequence of
the Duties impused on him as County Treasurer by the several




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