Dorsetshire .}

At the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of our Lord the King, held at Sherborne
in and for the County of Dorset , on Tuesday the Ninth Day of
April in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE
the Third by the Grace of GOD of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King,
Defender of the Faith, Etc. and in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and
Seventy one Before Sir William Ogtander< no role > Sir William Hanham< no role > Baronets
and others Esquires Justices of our said Lord the King, assigned to keep
the Peace of our said Lord the King, in and for the said County of Dorset ; and also to
hear and determine divers Felonies, Trespasses, and other Misdemeanors done or perpetrated
in the same County, Etc.

I John Wallis< no role > Clerk of the Peace of the County of Dorset in obedience to an Act of
Parliament made in the twenty first Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George
the Second intitled an Act to explain and amend an Act passed in the fourteenth Year
of his said Majestys Reign, intilled an Act for the Preservation of the Publick Roads
in that Part of Great Britain called England and so much of an Act passed in the third
Year of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary Intitled An Act for the better
repairing and amending the Highways and for the Settling the Rates of the Carriage of
Goods as relates to the settling the Rates of the Carriage of Goods Do hereby certify that his Majestys Justices of the Peace for the said County of
Dorset assembled at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace held in and for the said County
on Tuesday the Ninth Day of April instant in pursuance of the several Statutes in that
Case made and provided did rate and assess the Price of all Land Carriage of Goods whatsoever
to be brought into the said County of Dorset by any Common Waggon or Carrier for the
Year ensuing at the Rates or Prices following (that is to say)

For the Carriage of every Hundred Weight of Goods from London to the Towns of
Cranborne Wimborne Minster Blandford and Shaston in the said County the Sum of Five
Shillings and Six Pence for every Hundred Weight and so in proportion for a greater
or less Quantity than a Hundred and so from each of those Places to London

For every Hundred Weight of Goods from London to the Towns of Cerne Abbas Dorchester
and Sherborne in the said County or from those Places to London the Sum of Six Shillings
for each Hundred Weight and so in proportion for a greater or less Quantity than one
Hundred Weight.

For every Hundred Weight of Goods from London to Bridport Broadwinsor and Charmouth
in the said County and from each and either of those Places to London the Sum of Seven Shillings
for each Hundred Weight and so in Proportion for a grater or less Quantity than a Hundred

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand this 22d. Day of April 1771.

Jno Wallis< no role >