TOWN and COUNTY of
the Town of Newcastle
upon Tyne.}

At the General QUARTER SESSIONS of the PEACE our Sovereign Lord< no role > the King, held in
and for the said Town and County, at the Guild hall of the said Town, on Wednesday the
Third twenty secondDay of April, in the Thirty Twenty ninthfor of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord< no role >
GEORGE the Third of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith,
and so forth, before the Right Worshipful John [..] Esquire, Mayor, the Worshipful
Robert Hopper Williamson Christopher Fawcet< no role > , Esquire , Recorder, John Eras Blackett, Anthony Hood< no role > & Robt Shaft Hedely and Hu [..] Hornby, Esquire , and others their
associates, Justices of our said Lord the King, assesed to keep the Peace of our said Lord
[..] King, in the said Town and County, Etc.

THE said Justices, by Virtue of an Act of Parliament, intitled, An Act for the
better Repairing and Amending the Highway and for the Settling the Rates for
Carriage of Goods, do assess and rate the Prices of the Land-carriage of all Goods
Whatsoever, (except Gold and Silver Plate, Jewels and money) which shall from and
after the said Third Twenty-secondDay of April Instant until the first General Quarter
Sessions of the Peace, to be holden in and for the said Town and County after
Easter Day now next ensuing, be brought by any Common Waggoner or Carrier,
into this Town and County, from the Places hereafter mentioned respectively, at the
respective Rates and Prices following, viz.

From the City of London , or Suburbs thereof for every Parcel or Packet not
exceeding six Pounds Weight, One Shilling. For every Parcel or Packet above six
Pounds Weight, and not exceeding twenty-one Pounds Weight, Two Pence per Pound.
For every Parcel or Packet exceeding twenty-one Pounds Weight, at and after the
Rate of Fourteen Shillings per Hundred Weight.

From the Town of Doncaster , in the County [..] , at and according to the Rate
of [..] pence for every Stone Weight.

[..] n the City of York , at and according to [..] Rate of Seven-pence for every
[..] Weight.

From the Town of Pontefract, in the County [..] York, at and according to the
[..]

From the Town of Leeds, in the County of [..] and according to the Rate
[..] for every Stone Weight.

From the Town of Ripon, in the County of York and according to the Rate of
Five-pence for every Stone Weight.

From the Town of Hexham, in the County of Northumberland , at and according
[..] Rate of Two pence Three Half-pence Farthingfor every Stone Weight.

From the City of Carlisle , in the County of [..] land, at and according to the
R [..] of Four-pence for every Stone Weight.

From the City of Edinburgh, in that Part of Great Britain, called Scotland , or the
S [..] erbs thereof, at and according to the Rate of Nine-pence for every Stone Weight.

[..] The above Weights are all Avoirdupois; Fourteen Pounds to a Stone, and eight Stone
to Hundred Weight.

And it is ordered by this Court, That these Rates [..] Printed and immediately certified
by the Clerk of the Peace for this Town and County to the Lord Mayor< no role > of the City
of London , and to the respective Clerks of the Peace for the Counties of Middlesex
a [..] Surry, and the City and Liberty of Westminster , the Mayor of the Town of
Doncaster, the Lord Mayor< no role > of the City of york , the Mayor of Pontefract, the
[..] of the Town of Leeds, the Mayor of the Town of Ripon, the Mayor of
the City of Carlisle , the Bailiff of the Manor of Hexham, and the Lord Provost of
the City of Edinburgh, to be by them respective [..] hung up in proper public Places,
to which all Persons may resort for Information. And to the End, That no Common
Waggoner or Carrier may be ignorant of the [..] They may hereby take Notice, That
[..] of them shall take for Carriage of Goods and Merchandize above the Rates
an Prices hereby set, upon Pain to forfeit, for [..] such Offence, the Sum of Five
Pounds, to the levied by Distress and Sale of [..] and their Goods, by Warrant of
a [..] two Justices of the Peace where such Waggoner and Carrier shall reside, in
M [..] ner as by the said Act is appointed, to the [..] of the Party grieved.

By the Court,

CLAYTON,
Clerk of the Peace for the said Town and County.