West-Riding
of
Yorkshire
}.To wit.
At the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of the Lord the King, holden at Pontefract, in and for the West-Riding of the County of York,
on Monday in the first whole Week after the Close of Easter, (to wit) the 1st 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:
Before Bacon Frank< no role >
, Esq
. Chairman
, Sir George A [..] tage, Bart. the Reverend H. W. Coulthurst, Doctor in Divinity; the Reverend
James Stovin< no role >
,
Clerk
; John Blayds< no role >
, John Beckett< no role >
, Esquires
; the Reverend
William Wood< no role >
, and Jeremiah Dixon< no role >
, Clerks
; Jocelyn Price< no role >
, Johnson Atkinson< no role >
Busfield, Godfrey Wentworth Wentworth, Richard [..] and John Walker< no role >
, Esquires
: Justices of the Peace
there, Etc.
IT IS ORDERED AS FOLLOWS, (to wit)
By Virtue of a late Act of Parliament, intituled, "An Act for the better repairing and amending the Highways,
and for settling the Rates for Carriage of Goods," his Majesty< no role >
's Justices of the Peace
at the said Quarter Sessions assembled, do assess and assess
rate the Prices of all Land Carriages of Goods whatsoever, (except Gold and Silver Plate, Jewels and Money) to be brought to or carried from, any
Place or Places within this Riding, by any common Waggoner or Carrier, at the respective Rates and Prices following. viz.
From London to Bawtry, Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield, Barnsley, Pontefract, Wakefield, Leeds, or any other Place within this Riding, as far
distant from London as Leeds is, from the 1st Day of April, 1798, until the next General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, to be holden for the said
Riding
, at Pontefract, after Easter next, One Shilling per Stone; and for every odd Pound above a Stone, or any Number of Pounds, One Penny,
and no more, and after that Rate; and for every Parcel or Packet under a Stone, One Shilling, and in like Manner for the reverse from Doncaster, Etc.
to London, the like Rates.
To Halifax, Huddersfield, Bradford, and other Places of greater Distance from London
than Wakefield, Thirteen-pence per Stone, from the said
1st Day of April, to the said next Easter Sessions.
From London to Boroughbridge, Thirteen-pence per Stone from the said 1st Day of April, to the said next Easter Sessions, and for every odd
Pound above a Stone One Penny; and for every Parcel or Packet under a Stone, Thirteen-pence, and no more; and the same for the reverse.
From London to Settle. One Shilling and One Halfpenny per Stone, during all the same Time; and for every odd Pound above a Stone One Penny:
and for every Parcel or Packet under a Stone, One Shilling, and no more; and the like for the reverse.
From London to any Place within this Riding, that is distant from London Twenty Miles further than Leeds is, except the particular Places
before mentioned) Thirteen-pence per Stone during all the same Time, and proportionably for a greater or lesser Distance; and for every odd Pound
above a Stone, or any Number of Pounds, One Penny, and no more; and for every Parcel or Packet under a Stone, One Shilling and One Penny,
and no more; and the like for the reverse.
From York to Wakefield, or any other Place within his Riding, that is Twenty Miles distant from York, Two-pence per Stone during all the same
Time, and proportionably for a greater or lesser Distance; and for every odd Pound, One Farthing; and the like for the reverse.
From Pontefract to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, or any other Place within this Riding to ditto, of equal Distance, Eight-pence per Stone, from the said
1st Day of April, until the said next Easter Sessions. From Sheffield< no role >
to Wakefield, Two-pence per Stone. From Skipton to Leeds, Two-pence per Stone.
From Skipton to Tadcaster, Three-pence per Stone. From Leeds to Sheffield, Three-pence per Stone. From Sheffield< no role >
to Pontefract, Two-Pence
Halfpenny per Stone. From Pontefract to York, Two-pence per Stone.
From any Place out of this Riding, to any Place of Twenty Miles Distance in this Riding, and from any one Place to another, of the same
Distance within this Riding, Two-pence per Stone, and proportionably for a greater or lesser Distance, and for every odd Pound, One Farthing; and
the like for the reverse.
A Horse Pack is Sixteen Stone, at
14lb. per Stone.
From Leeds or Wakefield, to Selby or Turnbridge, and from any other Market Town or Place within this Riding to Selby or Turnbridge, as far
distant from the same respectively as Leeds is, and so for the reverse; a Truss containing Four Horse Packs, and proportionably more or less, from
May-day to Michaelmas, Six Shillings; from Michaelmas to Christmas, Eight Shillings; from Christmas to May-day, Ten Shillings and Six-pence;
and proportionably for a greater or lesser Distance.
A Ton is Ten Horse Packs.
From Selby or Turnbridge, to Leeds or Wakefield
, or any other Market Town or Place within this Riding, as far distant from Selby or Turnbridge as
Leeds
is; and so for the reverse; from May-day to Michaelmas, Twelve Shillings per Ton, from Michaelmas to Christmas, Sixteen Shillings per Ton;
from Christmas to May-day, Twenty Shillings per Ton; and proportionably more or less for a greater or lesser Distance.
And it is ordered by this Court, "That these Rates be printed, and immediately certified by the Clerk of the Peace
for this Riding, to the Lord
"Mayor of the City of London
, and to the respective Clerks of the Peace
for the Counties of Middlesex
and Surry, and the City and Liberty of
"Westminster
; and shall also be sent to the Lord Mayor< no role >
of the City of York
, and the Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and to the several Mayors and
"other Chief Officers of each respective Market Town within this Riding, to be hung up in some public Place, in every such Market Town, to which
"all Persons may resort for their Information; And to the End that no common Waggoner or Carrier may be ignorant of the Law, they may hereby
"take Notice, that none of them is to take for Carriage of Goods and Merchandize
, above the Rates and Prices hereby set, upon Pain to forfeit for every
"such Offence, the Sum of FIVE
POUNDS, to be levied by Distress and Sale of his or their Goods, by Warrant of any Two Justices of the Peace,
"where such Waggoner or Carrier shall reside, in Manner as by the said Act is appointed, to the use of the Party grieved."
BY THE COURT,
THOMAS WYBERCH,
CLERK OF THE PEACE FOR THE SAID RIDING.