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At the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of the Lord the
king, holden by Adjournment at Wakefield , in and for the
West-Riding of the County of York, the thirty-first Day of
August, in the thirty-seventh Year of the Reign of our So-
vereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God of
Great-Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the
Faith, and so Forth; before the Right Honourable Martin
Bladen< no role > , Lord Hawke, Chairman; the Right Honourable
Robert Arundell< no role > , Lord Viscount Gallway (of the Kingdom of
Ireland;) Sir George Armytage< no role > , Baronet ; Henry William
Coulthurst< no role > , D. D. James Wilkinson< no role > , Clerk; Bacon Frank< no role > ,
Robert Athorpe Athorpe< no role > , Esquires ; James Stovin< no role > , Clerk;
John Beckett< no role > , John Blayds< no role > , John Smyth< no role > , Michael Angelo
Taylor< no role > , Esquires ; William Wood< no role > , Jeremiah Dixon< no role > , Clerks;
Joseph Radcliffe< no role > , and John Galley< no role > Knight, Esquires ; Justices
of the Peace there, and so forth,

RESOLVED, THAT it appears to have been the invariable Practice,
Time out of Mind, for the Magistrates at the Quarter Sessions of the West-
Riding to make use of the Discretion reposed in them, as Guardians of the
Public Purse (the County Stock) to allow the Expences of certain Prosecutions
for Misdemeanors, such as Constables disobeying the Orders of Justices, Etc. Etc.
founded, if not in Law, upon the Propriety and Necessity of the Case.

RESOLVED, That Should it be decided, in the Case of the King against
the Justices of the West-Riding of Yorkshire , depending in the Court of King's
Bench , by that Court, That the Justices have not the Power by Law to make
such Orders as above alluded to; it is highly expedient and necessary, under
the Pressure of accumulated Public Business on the Magistracy, the numerous
and unavoidable Penal Laws, and the Disposition in many People to resist all
Law and Authority, that early in the next Session of Parliament an Act should
be applied for to give that Power and make that lawful which has long prevailed
as the Practise and Custom of Courts of Quarter Sessions of this Riding.

RESOLVED. That the Chairman be desired to transmit a Copy of these
Resolutions to WILLIAM WILBERFORCE< no role > , Esquire, and to the Honourable
HENRY LASCELLES< no role > , the Members for the County, requesting that they will,
as early as possible in the next Session of Parliament, bring in a Bill for the
above