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May 1792

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MIDDLESEX .


AT the General Session of the Peace of our Lord the
King holden in and for the County of Middlesex , at the
SESSION-HOUSE for the said County (by adjournment) on
Saturday the Second Day of June, in the Thirty-second
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the
Third, King of Great Britain, Etc.

THE inclosed Proclamation and also the Letter from the Right Honour-
able Henry Dundas< no role > , one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, being
laid before the Court by the Clerk of the Peace , and being read, and the same
having been taken into consideration:

It was RESOLVED by the Court,

That Printed Copies of the said Proclamation together with the said Letter be
sent to all the acting Magistrates of this County, and that they be requested to
use their utmost diligence to carry the same into Effect, and to communicate
the purposes of the said Proclamation to the several Peace Officers in their re-
spective Divisions; requiring them to be diligent and attentive to suppress and
prevent all Riots and Tumults, and all other Proceedings which may tend to
distrub the Public Peace; and that they do their endeavours to discover the
Authors and Printers of all Seditious and Libellous Writings, and any Persons
who shall disperse the same; and that they do, from Time to Time, give In-
formation to the Magistrates in their several Divisions of such Persons as may
be found offending in any of the Premises aforesaid.

RESOLVED also,

That a sufficient number of Copies of the Proclamation be sent to the High
Constables of each Division, in this County with Directions for them to deliver
the same to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the respective
Parishes within their several Divisions.

By the Court,
SELBY.

SIR,

I HAVE the honour to transmit to you, by the
Order of Sessions, the foregoing Copy of their Resolutions on the Subject
of His Majesty's Proclamation herewith inclosed. and I am, with the greatest
respect,

Sir,
Your most obedient humble Servant,
HENRY COLLINGWOOD SELBY< no role > ,
Clerk of the Peace for the County of Middlesex .




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