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WARWICKSHIRE ,
to wit.

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At the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of our Lord the King, holden at Warwick , in and for the said County, on
Tuesday, in the first Week next after the Clause of Easter, that is to say, the twenty fourth Day of April
in the twenty first Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, King over Great Britain, and so forth, and
in the Year our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and eighty one Before Miller Sadler< no role > Esquire
Sir William Wheler< no role > Baronet Samuel Aylworth< no role > Robert Augustus Johnson< no role > Esquires
and others, Keepers of the Peace of our said Lord the King, and also Justices of the said King, appointed to hear and deter-
mine divers Felonies, Trespasses, and other Misdemeanors, done and committed in the said County, and of the Quorum, and
soforth.

A PARTICULAR of the Prices of all Land Carriage of Goods whatsoever, to be brought into the County of Warwick , by any Common Waggoner
or Carrier assessed and rated by the said Justices, at the said General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, in pursuance of and according to an Act or Par-
liament made in the Third Year of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary, entitled, An Act for the better repairing and amending the
Highways, and for settling the Rates of Carriage of Goods, (to wit)

£.S.D

112/b. to the
Hundred.


For every Hundred weight of Goods, and so proportionably for a greater or less weigh (except small Parcels
not exceeding Ten Pounds weight) that shall be carried Sixty Miles, the said Miles to be taken according to
the ordinary and usual Computation of Miles used in the several and respective Places to which such Goods shall
be carried}
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112/b. to the
Hundred.


For every Hundred weight of Goods, and so proportionably for a greater or less weight (except small Parcels
not exceeding Ten Pounds weight) that shall be carried further than Sixty Miles, to pay for every Ten Miles
more than Sixty Miles, and so proportionably for every greater or lesser Number of Miles more than Sixty Miles,
the said Miles to be taken and computed as above}
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Which Rates and Assessments are to be certified to the several Mayors and other Chief Officers of every Market Town within this County, to be
hung up in some public Place, and also in every Excise Office within this County, to which all Persons may resort for their Information. And to
the End that none may ignorantly offend herein, this Court thinks it proper hereby to give Notice, that by the aforesaid Act of Parliament no
Common Waggoner or Carrier is to take for Carriage of such Goods above the Rates and Prices so set, upon Pain of Five Pounds for every Of-
fence, to be levied by Distress and Sale of his and their Goods, by Warrant of any two Justices of the Peace where such Waggoner or Carrier shall
reside, to the Use of the Party grieved.

By the Court
Kiwitt

I Joseph Hewitt< no role > Clerk of the Peace for the County of Warwick , do certify to the Clerk of the Peace of the County
of Middlesex
that the above is a true Copy and Particular of the Rate and Assessment for the Carriage of Goods, by any Common Waggoner or Carrier, into the County
of Warwick, as made by the Justices above-named, at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace above-mentioned, in Pursuance of an Act of Parliament
made in the Third Year of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary, for the better repairing and amending the Highways, and for settling the Rates of
Carriage of Goods, In TESTIMONY whereof, I the said Joseph Hewitt< no role > Clerk of the Peace aforesaid, have hereunto set my Hand, this
Seventy fifth Day of April1781

Jos: Hiwitt< no role >




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