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 Ninth Day of January in
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 John Gibbs< no role > of dorset Mews 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 a Coachmaster
residing in dorset Mews in the County of Middlesex and employed among Carriages a Coach Licenced by the
Commissioners for regulating Hackney Coaches and Chairs No. 18 for which he paid to Government a duty of
£ 26 per Annum. That the Petitioner was on or about the 18th day of August last Summoned before John
Spiller< no role > Esqr one of His Majestys Justices of the Peace for the 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 within the Kingdom of Great Britain to wit to Kew Bridge Piccadilly without having
as was alledged first obtained a Licence for that purpose in manner prescribed 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 Licencing and Regulating Hackney Coaches
and Chairs had granted the Petitioner a Licence to work within certain district 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 notwithstanging such Evidence Convicted the
Petitioner of the Offence stated in such Summons and ordered him to pay the Penalty imposed
by the said Act when the Petitioner entered into a Recognizance in order to appeal against such
Conviction whereby the Petitioner conceived himself aggrieved which Appeal stood duly
adjourned 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.