North-Riding
of
YORKSHIRE ,}
to wit

At the General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace of the Lord the King, holden for the
North-Riding of the County of York at Northallerton , in and for the said Ri-
ding, on Tuesday in the first whole Week after Easter, to wit, the Twenty-fourth Day
of April, in the Twenty-first Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE
the Third, King of Great-Britain, and so forth, before Thomas Mauleverer,
William Chaytor, the Hon. Gen. George Cary< no role > , Peter Consett< no role > , Ralph Bell< no role > ,
George Watson< no role > , John Yorke< no role > , William Chaloner< no role > , Ralph Jackson< no role > , William
Wilson< no role > , George Sutton< no role > , John Sawrey Morritt< no role > , Henry Pulleine< no role > , Sheldon Cradock< no role > , and Peter Goulet< no role > , Esquires , and the Reverend Henry Chaytor< no role > ,
Doctor of Laws , Henry Hewgill< no role > , William Peacock< no role > , William Comber< no role > ,
Christopher Wyvill< no role > , Frederick Dodsworth< no role > , and Thomas Zouch< no role > , Clerks ,
Justices of our said Lord the King, assigned to keep the Peace of our said Lord
the King in the said Riding, also to hear and determine divers Felonies, Tres-
passes, and other Misdemeanors committed within the Riding aforesaid.

BY Virtue of a late Act of Parliament, intitled, An Act for the better repairing and amending
the Highways, and for the setting the Rate for the Carriage of Goods, his Majesty's Justices
of the Peace , at the said Quarter-Sessions assembled, do asses and rate the Price of all Land
Carriage of Goods whatsoever (except Gold and Silver Plate, Jewels, and Monies) to be
brought to, or carried from, any Place or Places within this Riding, by any common Waggoner or
Carrier, from the Date hereof until the next General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace to be holden after
Easter next for the said Riding, at the respective Rates and Prices following, viz.

From London to Richmond , being Two Hundred and Thirty Post Miles, or to any other Place
whatsoever, within the said Riding, not exceeding the Distance from London that Richmond is, the
Sum of One Shilling and Threepence per Stone; and for every odd Pound above a Stone, or any
Number of Stones, One Penny, and no more; and for every Parcel or Packet, the Sum of One
Shilling; And in like Manner for the Reverse from Richmond , Etc. to London , the like Rates.

From London to any Part of the said Riding, at a greater Distance than Richmond is, not exceed-
ing Ten Miles, One Penny more; and so in Proportion for any greater Distance within the said
Riding.

From York , Leeds , Manchester , Newcastle , or any other Place out of this Riding, to any Place
within this Riding, and from any one Place to another within this Riding, the Sum of One Penny
per Stone for every Ten Miles, and so in Proportion for any greater or less Distance; and for every
odd Pound, over or under Half a Stone, one Farthing; and the like for the Reverse.

And it is ordered by this Court, That these Rates be printed, and immediately certified, by the
Clerk of the Peace for this Riding, to the Lord Mayor of the City of London , and to the respective
Clerks of the Peace for the Counties of Middlesex and Surry , and the City and Liberty of Westmin-
ster ; and shall also be sent to the Lord Mayor of the City of York , and the Mayor of Newcastle-upon
Tyne ; and to the several Mayors and other Chief Officers of each respective Market-Town within this
Riding, to be hung up in some public Place in every such Market-Town, 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, they may hereby take Notice, That none of them are to take, for Carriage of Goods and
Merchandize, above the Rates and Prices hereby set, upon Pain to forseit, for every such Offence,
the Sum of FIVE POUNDS, to be levied by Distress and Sale of his or their 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,

James Preston< no role > ,

Clerk of the Peace for the said Riding.