To the Worshipful his Majesty's Justices of the Peace
for
the County of Middlesex
in Session assembled
The Memorial of Joseph Burchell< no role >
Treasurer
Sheweth
That in consequence of an Act of Parliament
passed in the 34th, Year of the Reign of his present Majesty
empowering the Justices in Session to order recompence
and satisfaction to Treasurers for their extraordinary
trouble Labor and expences in transacting and negotiating
the business and duty of their respective Offices Whilst the
Militia is embodied, and in actual service Your
Memorialist did in September Session 1794 make
application for such recompence and satisfaction for his
services when Magistrates were pleased to order the
sum of One Hundred and Fifty Guineas to be paid
Your Memorialist.
That in the discharge of such duty your
Memorialist is employed in transacting business with the Treasurers
of the several Counties and the Overseers of the several
Parishes in this County in the examination and settling
accounts of monies paid and received touching the relief
of the families of militia men in Number about 600
Your Memorialist therefore availing
himself of the benefit of such Law solicits such
recompence and satisfaction as the Court shall think