Southampton ,
(TO WIT.)}

At the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord
the King holden at the Castle of Winchester, in and for the said
County of Southampton , on Tuesday in the first Week after the Clause
of Easter, to wit, the sixteenth Day of April, in the thirty-eighth
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by
the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, King,
Defender of the Faith, and so forth, and in the Year of our Lord
1798; before Cranley Thomas Kerby< no role > , Serjeant at Law, Chairman;
Charles Shaw Lefevre< no role > , Esquires , and others their Fellows, Justices of
our said Lord the King, assigned to keep the Peace of our said Lord
the King, in the County aforesaid, and also to hear and determine
divers Felonies, Trespasses, and other Misdeeds committed in the same
County.

PURSUANT to an Act of Parliament, made and passed in the
Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of their late Majesties
King William< no role > and Queen Mary, his Majesty< no role > 's Justices of the Peace
of the County aforesaid, now assembled at this present Session do
hereby assess and rate the Prices of Land Carriage of all Goods
whatsoever, to be brought into or carried from Place to Place,
within any Part of the County aforesaid, by any common
Waggoner or Carrier, in Manner following, that is to say;

For every Hundred Weight of all weighable Goods, containing
One Hundred and Twelve Pounds to the Hundred, the Sum of
One Shilling for every Twenty Miles, and so in Proportion for any
greater or lesser Number of Miles.

For all Parcels under Fourteen Pounds Weight, the Sum of
Sixpence for each Parcel. And

For all Parcels above Fourteen Pounds, and under Twenty-eight
Pounds Weight, the Sum of One Shilling for each Parcel.

And, that no such common Waggoner or Carrier shall take for
the Carriage of such Goods above the Rates and Prices aforesaid,
upon Pain to forfeit for every Offence the Sum of Five Pounds, to
be levied by Distress and Sale of his and their Goods, by Warrant
of any two Justices of the Peace , where such Waggoner or Carrier
shall reside, to the Use of the Party aggrieved.

And this Court doth order, that the said Rates and Assessments
shall be certified to the several Mayors and other chief Officers of
each Market-Town in the said County, to be hung up in some
public Place, in every such Market-Town, to which all Persons
may resort for Information.

PETER GAUNTLETT.