Borough of
Portesmouth.

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At the General Sessions of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the King,
holden at the Guild-Hall , in and for the said Borough, on the Twenty
Seventh Day of April in the Twenty First
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third
King or Great-Britain and so forth, before Edward Linzee< no role > Esqr . Mayor
and John Carter< no role > Esqr .

Justices assigned to keep the Peace
of our said Lord the King, within the said Borough, etc.

By the Court

His Majesty's Justices of the Peace present at this General Sessions, by Virtue
of An Act of Parliament, entitled An Act for the better repairing and amend-
ing 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 brough to and from London , Southwark , or elsewhere, into any 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 and Twelve Pounds to the Hundred,
to the Carrier for the same, for every Twenty measured Miles One Shilling and
One Penny half Penny and so proportionably for a greater or lesser
Quantity not under a Quarter of a 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 1782, for every Hundred Weight of all weighab [..]
Goods, containing One Hundred and Twelve Pounds to the Hundred, to th [..]
Carrier for the same for every Twenty measured Miles One Shilling and Five
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 publickly 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 of 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
30th. of April 1781.

Geo Huish< no role >