July 1800.

By adjournment same Day.

Whereas by virtue of an Act of Parliament made
in the 12th.. 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
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 the every the ends
and purposes mentioned in the said Act and also by virtue
of a certain other Act of Parliament made and passed in
the 37th.. year of the Regin of his present Majesty King George
the Third entitled "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 to 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 Middlesex to Assess and Tax rateably and in equal
proportions all and every such Parishes Towns Liberties
Precincts Villages Hamlets and Places the Churchwardens
and Overseers of the poor of the said several Parishes
Towns Liberties Precincts Villages Hamlets 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 for as much
as it appeareth unto the Court that more than Three fourths of
the Money of the last Rate made inSession last
being the last proceeding Rate hath been paid and expended
to Answer the ends and purposes mentioned in the Act
of Parliament first abovementioned and that it is necessary
a Considerable sum of Money should be raised and a Rate