Middlesex ss

December Session 1799.

To the Right Worshipfull the Chairman and
other Magistrates in Court of Session assembled

The Petition of David Sands< no role > of
Pall Mall in the County of Middlesex
Gentleman .

Most humbly Sheweth

That your petitioneriswas possessed of certain Leasehold
premises in Great Russell Street Bloomsbury in the parish of Saint
Giles in the fields in the County of Middlesex

That your Petitioner in or about the month of April last
past conceiving it necessary to make several alterations reparations
and amendments in and upon the said buildings and herein before
described premises did employ and direct James Mams< no role > of
Kensington Gravel pitts in the said County Bricklayer and others
to do and perform the same.

That John Hale< no role > of Charlotte Street in the parish of
Pancras in the County of Middlesex is the Surveyor regularly
appointed for the District wherein the said buildings and
Premises are situate and that your petitioner knowing that by
an Act passed in the fourteenth Year of the reign of his Present
Majesty intituled the "Building Act" that it was necessary for
the said Alterations reparations and amendments on the
said buildings and premises to be Surveyed by the said John
Hale< no role > as such Surveyor as aforesaid in order that the same
might be carried on and completed according to the lenor
of the said Act and the true intent and meaning thereof
and therefore your petitioner did request of the said John Hale< no role >
and sent to him to come and inspect the same

That your Petitioner finding all such Applications of
no avail they producing nothing but promises from the said
John Hale< no role > to come from time to time an Survey the said
Alterations Reparations and amendments on the said
Buildings and Premises but which were never performed
Your Petitioner did in his own hand writing make out
and Sign a notice or warning directed to the said John
Hele according to the true intent and meaning of the
said Act requiring him to come in and inspect the said
alterations reparations and amendments on the said
buildings and premises aforesaid in order that he the said
John Hale< no role > as such Surveyor as aforesaid might express