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Borough of Leeds,
in the County of
YORK .}


At the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of the Lord the King, held at Leeds, in and
for the Borough of Leeds , in the County of York , the 28th Day of April, in the
Twenty-first 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.
before Thomas Rea Cole< no role > , Esq ; Mayor , Samuel Buck< no role > , Esq ; Recorder , John Blayds< no role > ,
John Calverley< no role > , John Beckett< no role > , Joseph Fountaine< no role > , Esquires , and others their Fellows
Aldermen Justices of the said Lord the King, assigned to keep the Peace in the said
Borough; and also assigned to hear and determine divers Felonies, Trespasses and other
Misdeeds in the said Borough done and committed, It is ordered as follows, (to wit)

BY Virtue of an Act of Parliament, made 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 settling the Rates for Carriage of Goods," and also of another Act of Parliament, made
in the Twenty-first Year of the Reign of his late Majesty GEORGE the Second, intitled, "An Act to
"explain and amend an Act passed in the Fourteenth Year of his Majesty's Reign;" 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 settling the Rates of the Carriage of Goods," His Majesty's
Justices of the Peace for the said Borough, 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 Money) to be brought or carried
from, any Place or Places to, or unto this Borough, and from this Borough, to any other Place or Places, by any
Common Waggoner or Carrier, to be taken and received by, or paid to such Common Waggoner or Carrier from
the said 28th Day of April, 1781, until the General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace to be holden in and for the said
Borough after Easter next, at the respective Rates and Prices following, viz.

From London to Leeds Eleven-pence per Stone; and for every odd Pound above a Stone, or any Number of Stones,
Three Farthings, and no more, and so after that Rate; and for every Parcel or Packet under a Stone, Eleven-pence.
And from Leeds to London , at the same Rate and Price.
From York to Leeds , Two-pence per Stone; and for every odd Pound above a Stone, or any Number of Stones,
One Farthing and no more, and so after that Rate; and for every Parcel or Packet under a Stone, Two-pence.
And from Leeds to York , at the same Rate and Price.
From Skipton to Leeds , the like as from York to Leeds ; and from Leeds to Skipton , the like as from Leeds to York .
From Leeds to Harrogate , One Penny Half-penny per Stone.
From Harrogate to Leeds at the same Price.
From Leeds Knaresbrough , Two-pence per Stone.
From Knaresbrough to Leeds at the same Price.
From Leeds to Ripon , Two-pence Half-penny per Stone.
From Ripon to Leeds , at the same Price.
From any Place not before particularly named, Twenty Miles distant from Leeds, Two-pence per Stone; and
proportionably for a greater or lesser Distance; and for every odd Pound above a Stone, or any Number of Stones,
One Farthing, and no more; and for every Parcel or Packet under a Stone, Two-pence.
And to any Place not before particularly named, Twenty Miles distant from Leeds; and proportionably for a
greater or lesser Distance, at the same Rate and Price, as from that Place to Leeds .
From Newcastle-upon-Tyne to Leeds , Six-pence per Stone; and for every odd Pound above a Stone, or any Number
of Stones, One-Half-penny, and no more; and for every Parcel or Packet under a Stone, Six-pence.
And from Leeds to Newcastle-upon-Tyne , at the same Rate and Price.
From Rochdale , in the County of Lancaster , to Leeds , Four-pence per Stone; and for every odd pound above a Stone,
or any Number of Stones, One Half-penny, and no more; and for every Parcel or Packet under a Stone, Four-pence.
And from Leeds to Rochdale , at the same Rate and Price.
From Manchester in the said County of Lancaster , to Leeds , Five-pence per Stone; and for every odd Pound above a
Stone, or a Number of Stones, One Half-penny, and no more; and for every Parcel or Packet under a Stone, Five-pence.
And from Leeds to Manchester , at the same Rate and Price.

"And it is ordered by this Court. " That these Rates be printed, and immediately certified by the Common Clerk of
"this Borough, 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 Westminster ; 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 the West-Riding of the County of York , and to the Market Towns of Rochdale and
"Manchester , in the County of Lancaster ; and that the same be hung up in some public Place, in the said Town of
"Leeds , 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 Case, They are hereby required to take Notice, That none of them is
"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 War-
"rant of any two Justices of the Peace , where such Waggoner or Carrier shall reside, in Manner as by the said
"Act of the Third Year of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary, is appointed, to the Use of the Party
"grieved."

By the COURT,

THOMAS BARSTOW< no role > ,

Clerk of the Peace for the said Borough.




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