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informing the Court of their proceedings they found it necessary
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to adjourn their meetings till he should be able to attend them again
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But in regard by an act made in the twelfth year of the Reign of
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Queen Anne and other precedent acts no trophy Money can be raise
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untill the accounts of the last year have been examined and certified
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audit may be necessary to raise more to enable the Militia to marsh
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in case their should be occasion for their so doing in this time of Danger
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your Committee (who have the security of his Maty and his Governmt
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(most sincerely at heart) thought it became them to lay before you
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what has occurr'd to them (imperfect as it is) rather than by any
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delay of theirs to give on their part any the least occasion of complaint
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As to the first part of their instructions to enquire what sums
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have been raised your Committee beg leave to observe that it appears
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to them that the Sum to be raised by Law upon the whole County in
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one year is £368:15:2: That the Board of Lieutenancy do as the
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see convenient issue their warrants to certain persons in each
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parish to assess upon the inhabitants in their several parishes their
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ratable proportion of the said Sum according to the annext rate,
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Books of which assessment fairly written exactly cast up and sign'd
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by the said assessors together with the names of two or more fit
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persons to be Collectors thereof they are to bring unto them at their
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Board, That upon receipt of these warrants the said assessord do
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arbitrarily assess great Sums of money (in some parishes more than
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double what the warrants do require) and do carry back two boots
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of such their unwarrantable assessments to the Board of
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Lieutenancy not cast up the better to deceive to one of which Books
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the Board of Lieutenancy without directing the same to be cast up
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cause warrants under the
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hands and Seals of three or more of them
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to be annexed by pinning only (whereby it is in the power of the
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Collectors to annex them to any other books they shall think fit) and
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by such warrants do require and command the Collectors speedily to
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collect and gather the several Sums of money taxed and set upon
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every person within written, thereby establishing the inequity of the
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assessors as it were by Law, As by the annext blank warrants may
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appear; Your Committee upon this occasion thought it necessary to
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sumon before them the several assessors and Collectors to examine
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them upon the promises. But in regard their meetings were in time
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