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To the Worshipful His Majesty's
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in General Quarter Session of the Peace at the Session House on
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The humble Petition and Appeal of
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Stephen Chambers
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Sheweth
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That your Petitioner was on the 23d. Day of June 1797
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rated or assessed for a Dwelling House Warehouses and Premises situate
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in Maiden head Alley in the said Hamlet of Ratcliff in the said
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by the Commissioners acting in and under a certain Act
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of Parliament Intituled "an Act for paving and regulating Rosemary
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also the said
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the Foot Path in
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Part of the
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Butcher
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"Row and Brook Street And the several Streets Lanes and Passages
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"opening into the same and for removing all Obstructions and Annoyances
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"there from and preventing the like for the future"
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That your Petitioner humbly conceives that he is
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not liable to be rated or assessed for the said Premises the same not
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being situate within any of the Places particularly specified in
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the said Act and which have been paved by virtue of or in pursuance
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thereof but on the contrary the said Alley wherein the said Dwelling
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House Warehouses and Premises are situate has not been new
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paved under any Provision of the said Act but remains as it were
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previous to passing the said Act which exempts your Petitioner from
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any Rate or Assessment whatsoever
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Your Petitioner therefore humbly appeals to this
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Court against the Assessment of the said Commissioners
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and prays that your Worships will be pleased to
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appoint a Day to hear and determine the said Appeal
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And Your Petitioner will ever pray Etc
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