receive any Evidence whatever on his past and came to the following Resolution that is last
"Minutes of the last Meeting read and [..] confirmed

"Resolved. That it is the opinion of this Committee taking into their Consideration
"all the Circumstances of Mr Francis's Claim that the Sum of One hundred Pounds allowed
"him by the Committee of the Twenty Ninth of March last is a fair and reasonable Consideration
"for any Losses he may have sustained by his Contract with this County"

That your Petitioner conceiving himself to be aggrieved and oppressed in the
premises by the said Magistrates for Surry and their said Surveyor on the fourth Day of
October Instant gave notice in Writing to the said Clerk of the Peace for the said County
of Surry pursuant [..] to the said Act of this appeal and of the Matter thereof and he have expressed into
such Recognizance with such Sureties and for such purposes as are particularly mentioned
and required by the said Act.

Your Petitioner therefore most humbly praysYour Worships
that your Worshipswill be pleased to receive this his Petition of
appeal against the said proceeding of the said Magistrates of Surry and their said Surveyor except as to the
said Resolution of the Twenty Fifth day of April last) and to grant him not only such
redress as the said Magistrates by such Resolution clearly acknowledge that he is intitled
to But also such further and other Redress in the premises as to your Worships in your Wisdom and Justice
shall seem meet and as his Case may Require and that your Worships will be pleased to order that this
appeal may be heard and determined in the present Sessions

And your Petitioner as in duty be and shall ever pray Etc