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CITY of YORK .

At the General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, now held at the Guildhall of the
said City in and for the said City, and County of the same City, on Friday the 23d. Day of April in the
thirteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King GEORGE the Third over Great - Britain, and
so forth, before the Right Hon. Henry Jubb< no role > Esquire Lord, Mayor of the said City Peter
Johnson
< no role > Esquire Recorder of the same City James Rowe< no role > Francis Stephenson< no role >
Thomas Bowes< no role > Henry Raper< no role > John Wakefield< no role > and Edward Wallis< no role > .
Esquires , Aldermen of the same City, and others, their Fellows, Aldermen of the said City, Justices assigned to
keep the Peace of the said Lord the King in and for the City aforesaid, and County of the same City; and also
to bear and determine divers Felonies, Trespasses, and other Misdemeanor committed within the said City and
county of the same, and so forth.

By Virtue of a late Act of Parliament, intitled, An Act for the better Repairing and Amending the
Highways, and for setting the Rates of the Carriage of Goods, his Majesty's Justices of the Peace
of the said City of York , and County of the same City, at the said Quarter-Sessions assembled, have
assessed and rated, and do assess and rate, the Price of all Land-Carriage of Goods whatsoever, to
be brought into the said City of York , by any common Waggoner or Carrier, at the respective
Rates and Prices following: That is to say,

From Askrigg to York , for each Stone Weight, Fivepence.
Beverley to York , for each Stone Weight, Threepence Halfpenny.
Bradford to York , for each Stone Weight, Threepence.
Bedal to York, for each Stone Weight, Threepence.
Bridlington to York, for each Stone Weight, Fourpence.
Colne to York, for each Stone Weight, Fourpence.
Durham to York, for each Stone Weight, Sevenpence.
Doncaster to York, for each Stone Weight, Fourpence, and for each Pack, at fourteen Pounds to the
Stone, Four Shillings.
Gisbrough to York, for each Stone Weight, Sixpence.
Halifax to York, for each Stone Weight, Fourpence.
Hull to York, for each Stone Weight, Fourpence, and for each Pack, at fourteen Pounds to the Stone,
Four Shillings.
Huddersfield to York, for each Stone Weight, Fourpence.
Howden to York, for each Stone Weight, Threepence.
Helmsley to York, for each Stone Weight, Threepence.
Kendall to York, for each Stone Weight, Sevenpence.
Kirby-Moorside to York, for each Stone Weight, Threepence.
Knaresbrough to York, for each Stone Weight, Twopence.
London to York, for each Stone Weight, Twelvepence.
Leeds to York, for each Stone Weight, Three- halfpence.
Middleham to York, for each Stone Weight, Threepence Halfpenny.
Masham to York, for each Stone Weight, Fourpence.
Manchester to York, for each Stone Weight,Six Seven pence.
Malton to York, for each Stone Weight, Twopence.
Newcastle to York, for each Stone Weight, Eightpence.
Nottingham to York, for each Stone Weight, Tenpence.
Otley to York, for each Stone Weight, Threepence.
Ripon to York, for each Stone Weight, ThreepenceHalfpenny
Richmond to York, for each Stone Weight, Fourpence.
Skipton to York, for each Stone Weight, Threepence.
Scarbrough to York, for each Stone Weight, Fourpence.
Stokesley to York, for each Stone Weight, Fourpence.
Thirsk to York, for each Stone Weight, Twopence Halfpenny.
Wakefield to York, for each Stone Weight, Threepence.
Wiggan to York, for every twelve Pounds Weight of Pewter, Sixpence.
Whitby to York, for each Stone Weight, Fivepence.
Yarm to York, for each Stone Weight, Fourpence.

AND it is Ordered, That these Rates be printed and distributed about the City; and that a Copy thereof
be hung up in some public Place in the same City, to which all Persons may resort for their Information.
And, to the End that no common Waggoner or Carrier may be ignorant of the Law in this Behalf, they are
hereby to take Notice, That none of them is or are to take for Carriage of such Goods and Merchandizes ,
above the Rates and Prices hereby set, upon Pain to forfeit for every such Offence, the Sum of Five Pounds,
to be levied by Distress and Sale of his and thir Goods, by Warrant of any two Justices of the Peace , where
such Waggoner or Carrier shall reside, in Manner as by the said Act is appointed, to the Use of the Party
grieved.

By the COURT,
JOHN RAPER< no role > ,
Common Clerk of the said City and County of the same.

YORK: Printed by A.WARD, in Coney-Street .




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