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<p n="984"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Petition of the Justices of<lb></lb>
the peace of Middx To the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55601_occ1367">Honble</rs>
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. House of Comons<lb></lb>
concerning the raiseing<lb></lb>
of Bridge money Etc}</note>
To the Honourable the Commons of Great<lb></lb>
Britain in Parliament assembled.</p>
<p n="985">The humble Petition of his Majesties<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55601_occ1368">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the County of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo1011">Middlesex</rs>
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in their General Quarter<lb></lb>
Session assembled.</p>
<p n="986">Sheweth</p>
<p n="987">That the Execution of the Laws for Repair of County<lb></lb>
Bridges passing of Vagrants, and Repairing of Gaols being<lb></lb>
comitted to the Care and direction of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55601_occ1369">Justices of the peace</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the Several Counties of England, your Petitioners have<lb></lb>
used their best Endeavours to make them Effectual in<lb></lb>
this County.</p>
<p n="988">And in Order thereunto have caused Several Rates to<lb></lb>
be made for the purposes aforesaid, which Rates have<lb></lb>
been made in the usual Form practiced for many years<lb></lb>
last past in this and other Counties.</p>
<p n="989">That Several of these <del>the</del>
Rates have been removed by<lb></lb>
Writs of Cerciorari, and Some-of them Quashed, and<lb></lb>
Actions have been brought against the Officers for<lb></lb>
Collecting one of the Said Rates while Such Rate was in<lb></lb>
force, And tho' one of these Rates (to wit the Rate for Repairing<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo1012">Brentford Bridge</rs>
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) removed by Cerciorari hath been<lb></lb>
confirmed, yet it was about two years after it had been So<lb></lb>
removed, by reason whereof the Execution of the Said Rate<lb></lb>
was all that time Suspended, and during the Said time<lb></lb>
many persons liable to the payment of the Said Rate<lb></lb>
died, and many others removed from their Habitations so<lb></lb>
that Several parts of the Money to be raised by the Said Rate<lb></lb>
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are<lb></lb>
likely to be lost, By which and the Moneys necessarily expended<lb></lb>
in the defence of the Said Rate (which Amount to about one<lb></lb>
third part of the Money to be raised thereby) The Same will be<lb></lb>
greatly deficient to answer the purpose intended, And in the<lb></lb>
mean time the Said Bridge is fallen So much into decay and<lb></lb>
is in So ruinous a Condition that the Expences will be very</p>
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