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<p n="918">To His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50959_occ217">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
Acting for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50959_geo466">County of Middlesex</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="919"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Gentlemen</note>
</p>
<p n="920">Finding that a late Act of<lb></lb>
Parliament authorises the Magistrate to allow<lb></lb>
the Constable a compensation for Collecting the<lb></lb>
County-rate.</p>
<p n="921">I beg leave to submit to your Worships<lb></lb>
the distances of the Parishes in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50959_geo467">Finsbury Division</rs>
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<lb></lb>
being an round of not less than twenty two miles<lb></lb>
and I always go personally to serve the Notices<lb></lb>
for each rate and call on the several Officers of<lb></lb>
each Parish some three and some four times for<lb></lb>
the money.</p>
<p n="922">I humbly beg your Worships will<lb></lb>
take the same into consideration, and allow me<lb></lb>
what shall appear to you most just.</p>
<p n="923">I, am your Worships,<lb></lb>
humble Servant,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50959_n923-1">Samuel Bridgman</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50959_occ218">High Constable</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="924">April 4th.<lb></lb>
1799}</p>
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