MIDDLESEX .

AT the General Quarter 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, ()
on Monday in the week next after the feast of the Epiphany to wit the Ninth Day of Januaryin
the Thirty SeventhYear of the Regin of our Sovereign
Lord GEORGE the Third, king of Great Britain, Etc. Before
William Mainwaring< no role > , William Bleamire< no role > , John Bond< no role >
David Dean< no role >
Esquires, and others their Fellows, Justices of our said Lord the
King, assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid; and
also to hear and determine divers Felonies, Trespasses,and other
Misdemeanours committed in the same County.

Whereas Coulson Johnson< no role > of Knightsbridge Did at the last General quarter Session of the
peace held in and for this County Exhibit his Petition and Appeal setting forth That the Petitioner was [..]
Coach master residing at Knightsbridge in the County of Middlesex and employed among other Carriages [..]
Coach Licenced by the Commissioners for regulating Hackney Coaches and Chairs No. 21. for which he paid
to Government a duty of £26 per ammun. That the Petitioner was on or about the 18th. day of August last
Summoned before John Spiller< no role > Esquire one of his Majestys Justices of the peace for teh said County for
keeping and employing a certain Coach as a Public Stage Coach for the purpose of conveying Passengers for
hire to and from different places withn the Kingdom of Great Britain to wit from piccadilly to Kew Bridge
without having as was alledged first obtained a Licence for that purpose in manner preserbed by the
Statute in that Case made and provided. That it appeared in Evidence before the said Magistrate that
the Coach so complained of for having been worked as a Stage Coach within the distance aforesaid was
one and the same identical Coach for which the Commissioners for Licenceing and Regulating Hackney
Coaches and Chairs had granted the Petitioner a Licence to work within certain Districts under their
Authority or Jurisdiction and for which he paid the said duty of £26. per Annum that such Coach was
worked within such district only. That the said Magistrate notwithstanding such Evidence Convicied
the petitioner of the Offence statute such Summons and ordered him to pay the penalty imposed by the said
Act when the Petition entered into a Recognizance in order to Appeal against such Conviction whereby
the Petitioner conceived himself aggrieved: which Appeal stood duly adjournment until this Session
Now upon hearing the said Appeal and what hath been alledged by the respective parties their Counsel
and Witness in and concerning the premises It is Ordered that the said Conviction be and the
same is hereby Quashed

By the Court.