Town and County of
the Town of Newcastle
upon Tyne .

At the General QUARTER SESSIONS of the PEACE of our Sovereign Lord
the King, held in and for Said Town and County at the Guildhall of
the said Town, on Wednesday the twenty fifth Day of April in the twenty-
first Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third of
Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the faith, and so
forth, before the Right Worshipful John Erasmus Blackett< no role > , Esquire , Mayor ,
the Worshipful Christopher Fawcett< no role > , Esq ; Recorder Charles Atkinson< no role > ,
John Hedley< no role > , and Hugh Hornby< no role > Esquires , and others their Associates,
Justices of our said Lord the king, assigned to keep the Peace of our said
Lord the King in the said Town and County Etc

THE said Justices by Virtue of an Act of Parliament, intitled An Act
for the better Repairing and Amending the Highways, and for the Set-
tling the Rates for Carriage of Goods, do asses and rate the Prices of the
Land-carriage of all Goods whatsoever,(except Gold and Silver Plate,
Jewels and Money)which shall from and after the said twenty-fifth Day
of April Instant until the first General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, to
be holden in and for the said Town and County after Easter Day now next
ensuing, be brought by any Common Waggoner or Carrier, into this
Town and County from the Places hereafter-mentioned respectively, at
the respective Rates and Prices following,viz

From the City of London , or Suburbs thereof, for every Parcel or
not exceeding Six Pounds Weight, One Shilling. For every Pa [..]
Packet above Six Pounds Weight and not exceeding twenty-one Pound
Weight,, Two-pence per Pound. for every Parcel or Packet exceeding
twenty-one Pounds Weight, at and after the Rate of Fourteenth
per Hundred Weight.

From the Town of Doncaster , in the County of York , at and according to
the Rate of Eleven-Pence for every Stone Weight

From the City of York , at and according to the Rate of Seven-Pence for
every Stone Weight;

From the Town of Pontefract in the County of York , at and according
to the Rate of Seven-Pence for every Stone Weight.

From the Town of Leeds , in the County of York , at and according to
the Rate of Six pence for every Stone Weight

From the Town of Ripon , in the County of York at and according to
the Rate of Five-pence for every Stone Weight

From the Town of Hexham , in the County of Northumberland , at and ac-
cording to the Rate of Three Half-pence Ferthing for every Stone Weight.

From the City of Carlisle in the County of Cumberland at and according
to the Rate of Four-pence for every Stone Weight.

From the City of Edinburgh , in that Part of Great Britain, called scot-
land or the Suburbs thereof, at and according to the Rate of Nine pence
for every Stone Weight

The above Weights are all Avoirdupois; fourteen Pounds to a Stone,
and eight Stone to a Hundred Weight.

And it is Ordered by this Court, That these Rates, be printed and imme-
diately certified by the Clerk of the Peace for this Town and County 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 the Maryor of the Town of Doncaster the Lord Mayor
of the City of York the Mayor of Pontefract , the Mayor of the Town of
Leeds , the Mayor of the Town of Ripon , to the Mayor of the City of Car-
lisle the Bailiff of the Manor of Hexham , and the Lord Provost of the
City of Edingburgh , to be them respectively hung up in Proper public
Places, to which all Persons may report for Information; And to the End,
That no Common Waggoner or Carrier may be ignorant of the Law,
They may hereof take Notice, That none of them shall take for Carriage of
Goods and Merchandize above the Rates and Prices hereby set, upon Pain
to forfeit, for every such Offence the Sum of five Ponds to beleived
by Distress and Sale of his and their Goods by Warrant or any two Ju-
stices of the Peace where such Waggoner and Carrier shall reside in Man-
ner as by the said Act is appointed to the Use of the Party Grieved

By the Court
GIBSON
Clerk of the Peace for the said Town and County