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 second Day of April, in the thirty-ninth
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
1799; before Charles Shaw Lefevre< no role > , Chairman , Lovelace Bigg
Wither, Esquires , and other 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, Tres-
passes, 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'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
Six pence 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.