January 1799.

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 entitled "An Act for the move 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 Commission at their
General or Quarter Sessions or the greater part of them then
and there Assembled were Authorized and Empowered
from time to time to make One General Rate or Assessment
for such sum or Sums of Money as the Justices in
their discretion should think sufficient to Answer all
and every the ends and purposes mentioned in the
said Act and Also by virtue of a certain other Act
Parliament made and passed in the Thirty seventh
Year of the Reign of his present Majesty King George the
Third intitled. An Act for empowering the Justices of
"the Peace for the County of Middlesex at their General
"or Quarter Sessions of the Peace to make a fair and
"equal county Rate for the said County". the Justices
of the Peace for the said county of Middlesex in their
General or Quarter Sessions Assembled were empowered
Authorized and required from time time to Assess
and Tax all and every Parish Town Liberty
Precinct Village Hamlet and Place within the said
county rateably in equal proportions according to
the Annual Rent or Value of Estates within such
Parish Town Liberty Precinct Village Hamlet and
Place respectively and in Order the better to enable
the said Justices of the peace for the said County of Middx
to Assess and Tax rateably and in equal proportion all
and every such Parishes Towns Liberties Precinct
Villages Hamlets and Places the Churchwardens and
Overseers of the poor of the said several Parishes Towns,
Liberties Precincts Villages Hamblets and Places were
by the said Act required to make a Return in Writing
upon Oath to the said Justices in Session Assembled
of the Total Amount of the Rental or Value of the
Estates within the Parish Town Liberty Precinct,
Village, Hamlet or Place to which they should
respectively belong Now Forasmuch as it
Appeareth unto this Court that more than Three
fourths of the Money of the last Rate made in
Session last being the last proceeding Rate hath been paid