Middlesex

At the General Quarter Session of the
Peace of our Lord the King holden in and for
the County of Middlesex at Hicks Hall in
Saint John Street by adjournment on Thursday
the Eleventh day of July in the Sixteenth Year
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the
Third King of Great Britain Etc.

An Act of Parliament lately passed intituled an Act to authorise
for a limited time the Punishment by hard labour of Offenders who
for certain Crimes are or shall become liable to be Transported to
any of his Majesty's Colonies or Plantations being laid before this
Court and the same being read and it appearing that the Justices of
the peace for the County of Middlesex at their Quarter or other General
Sessions of the peace are directed by the said act to appoint an Overseer
or Overseers to take the Management and direction of such persons
who under the Authority of the said Act shall be punished by being
kept to hard Labour in the raising Sand Soil and Gravel from and
Cleansing the River Thames or any other service for the benefit of the
Navigation of the said River The Chairman recommended Mr.
Duncan Campbell< no role > of the City of London Merchant as a fit and
proper Person to be appointed an Overseers under the said Act Mr.
Campbell attending was called in and being asked what he had to
propose to the Court he offered himself to the Approbation of the
Justices and Solicited to be appointed an Overseer under the said
Act and being also asked whether if he were appointed he should or
would look to or expect from the County of Middlesex any part of
the Expence that may attend the Execution of the Office in any respect
whatever or should or would make any Claim hereafter upon the
County or their Treasurer for or in respect of the same Mr. Campbell
said that he only looked to the Justices for a meer appointment
and not that they or the County Treasurer were to defray any part
of the Expences attending the Execution of the Office of Overseer under
the said Act he having Contracted with the Government in respect
to the Expences that may attend the Execution of the Office and that
if he were appointed he should not nor would at any time
hereafter apply to or Claim of the Justices of the peace for the County
of Middlesex or the Treasurer for the said County any Sum or
Sums of Money that might be paid or Expended by him in the
Execution of the said Office of Overseer in any Respect whatsoever
Whereupon Mr. Campbell being desired to with draw it was
moved and Seconded that this Court do appoint the said Duncan
Campbell< no role > an Overseer under the said Act of Parliament and the
same being unanimously agreed to It is ordered that Duncan < no role >