different times borrowed of divers Persons in the manner directed by the said Acts several Sums
of Money amounting in the whole to the Sum of £21375. and have granted annuities thereof
to the amount of the Sum of £1813.10s

That by the said First mentioned Act it is provided That as such annuitant or
annuitants should die off and such Rates or Assessments could be lowered and reduced and some
part of the said Tolls could be taken off the same should be so done from time to time in such
manner and proportions as the Justices of the Peace for the said County of Middlesex at their
General or Quarter Sessions assembled should order and direct.

That owing to the deaths of Many of the annuitants. the annuities now Payable by the
Commissioners amount to no more than £706.5s. Pr. Annum and the double Tolls the present
Lease Whereof at the Sum of £1425 expires at Midsummer next has with the Income of the
Rate Which at Nine pence in the Pound Produces nearby the Sum of £300 P Ann. created
a considerable Surplus in the Hands of the Treasure of the Commissioners which amounted
at the Audit of his accounts in July last to the Sum of £1535. 0.5½ and at the Audit of his
Accounts for the following half year to January 1798 to the Sum of £1914.11.3 out of which is to be
deducted the Sum of £400 or thereabouts to pay Debts & Claims upon the Commissioners at present undischarged.

That at a Meeting of the said Commissioners held in the Vestry Room in Shoreditch
Church on Tuesday the 31st. day of October last the Commissioners then present taking into
their Consideration the Affairs of the said Trust and the amount of the Surplus reported to
be in the Treasurers Hands and the Propriety of Lowering the Rate and taking off Part of
the said Tolls Resolved and Ordered that proper measures should be taken before
midsummer next to reduce the Pavement Rate to Six Pence in the Pound and to lower the
Toll to one half penny for each Horse Mare Gelding mule or Ass Passing through the Turnpike
gate

Your Memorialists therefore pray that this Court will take the
{Premises into Consideration and will Order and direct that from and
after Midsummer day next the Rates and Assessments to be Made under
the said Acts of Parliament shall be lowered and reduced to Six pence in
the Pound of the Yearly Rents of House Etc. liable to the Rate and that
the said tolls be taken off and Lowered to the Sum of One half penny
for every Horse Mare Gelding Mule a Ass Passing thro the said
Turnpike gate

Signed at a Public Meeting of the said Commissioners
in the Vestry Room at Shoreditch Church on Tuesday
the Thirtiethday of Januaryin the Year
of our Lords 1798

John Gant< no role > }
Chairman

Charles Lusk< no role > Clerk