Borough of
Portesmouth }

At the General Sessions of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the King
held at the Guild Hall in and for the said Borough on the Thirtieth
day of April in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign
Lord George the third King of Great Britain and so forth before
Edward Linzee< no role > Gent Deputy Mayor John Carter< no role > Esqr. Thomas
White< no role > Gent & Philip Varlo< no role > Gent Justices assigned to keep the
Race of our said Lord the King within the said Borough Etc

His Majestys Justices of the Peace present at this General Sessions by
Virtue of an Act of Parliament entitled the Act for the [..] pairing
and amending the Highways and for settling the Rates of Carriage of
Goods, Do assess and rate the Prices of all Land Carriage of Goods
whatsoever to be carried and brought to and from London Southwark or else where into a his Parts of the Liberty
of the said Borough in manner following, that is to say, from the
Day of the Date hereof until Michaelmas next for every Hundred Weight
of all weighable Goods containing One Hundred & Twelve Pounds to
the Hundred, to the Carrier for the same for every Twenty Miles One
Shilling and Four Pence, and so proportionably for a greater or lesser
Quantity not under a Quarter [..] Hundred Weight; and from Michaelmas
next to the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary which
shall be in the Year of our Lord 1774 for every Hundred Weight of all
weighable Goods containing One Hundred & Twelve Pounds to the
Hundred, to the Carrier for the same for every [..]
& Eight Pence and so proportionably for any greater or lesser Quantity
not under a Quarter of a Hundred Weight, and the Clerk of the Peace of
the said Borough is hereby required to make this Order published
known

Examined by me Geo Huish< no role > Clerk of the Peace of the
said Borough

Borough of
Portesmouth}

I George Huish< no role > Clerk of the Peace for the said Borough do in Obedience
to an Act of Parliament passed in the Twenty First Year of the Reign
of King George the Second hereby certify to the Clerk of the Peace for the County of
Middlesex that the above is a true Copy of a Rate & Assessment made for the
Carriage of Goods at the last Easter Sessions held in & for the said Borough in
Pursuance of an Act of Parliament of the third Year of the Reign of King William
& Queen Mary; Witness my Hand the Seventh of May 1773.

Geo Huish