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January 1791

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unwatched unrepaired and unsafe ways and passages intervening and
laying between such parts of the said parish and your petitioner's said
promises so that she has not received nor doth or can she receive the
benefit intended to be given in and by the said Act of parliament
made in the Twenty Seventh year of his late Majesty's Reign.

And that by a certain Subsequent Act of Parliament made in the
First year of the reign of his present Majesty Intituled "An Act for
Making Widening and repairing a Road from the North East side of
the Goswell Street Road next Islington in the County of Middlesex and
near the Road called the new Road over the Fields and Grounds to Old
Street Road opposite to the Doghouse Bar and at and from the Doghouse
Bar to the End of Chiswell Street by the Artillery Ground " It is enacted
"That the Trustees appointed under the same shall cause such and so many
Lamps to be Erected upon the said Road to be repaired by Virtue of
such Act And also to appoint such a number of fit and able bodied
men to Watch and Guard the said Road in the Night time as they the
said Trustees shall think proper and necessary" It is also Enacted by the
said Act "That no part of the said Road shall be paved and that if
any part of the said Road shall be paved the same shall be deemed
a Common Nuisance" And which said Act by another Act made in the
Twenty Third year of the Reign of his said present Majesty for enlarging
the Term and powers of the aforesaid Act, made in the first year of his
present Majesty, the term therein mentioned, was enlarged for the further
Term of Twenty One years

That your petitioner did never apply for or wanted any better
enlightening and cleansing repairing and Watching the Road or Highway
Contiguous to or near her said Messuage or Tenement and appurtenances
other than such as she received under and by virtue of the said Acts
made in the First and Twenty Third years of his present Majesty's reign

Therefore your petitioner humbly appeals against the
said Assessment and Warrant and Distress made there or
And prays that your Worships will please to give her
such relief in the premises and make such Order therein as
shall be just and reasonable

And your petitioner shall ever pray Etc.




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