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<p n="1365"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">January 1779</note>
And the said Report being read Article by Article It<lb></lb>
is Ordered that so mush of the said Report as respects the Claim of the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1365-1">Richard Akerman</rs>
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under the Act of the 16th. of his present Majesty be and the<lb></lb>
same is hereby Confirmed And it is also Ordered that so much of the<lb></lb>
said Report as respects the demand of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1365-2">Richard Akerman</rs>
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under the<lb></lb>
Act of the 14th. Year of the Reign of his present Majesty be and the same is hereby<lb></lb>
approved And it is further Ordered that the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ607">Treasurer</rs>
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of this County do<lb></lb>
refuse to pay the said demand and that if Mr. Akerman shall proceed by<lb></lb>
legal proofs to compel him thereto the Treasurer do defend such refusal and<lb></lb>
that a Copy of this Resolution be given to Mr. Akerman</p>
<p n="1366">Ordered that the said Committee have leave to sit again in<lb></lb>
further Execution of their reference and that the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ608">Treasurer</rs>
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do take his Instructions<lb></lb>
in defence of the said Demand from the said Committee</p>
<p n="1367">Ordered that the Treasurer do immediately apply to the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ609">Sollicitor General</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1367-1">Edward Bearcroft</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ610">Esquire</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1367-2">John Dunning</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ611">Esquire</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and Retain them of Counsel on his behalf</p>
<p n="1368">By adjournment same day</p>
<p n="1369">The following Petition from Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1369-1">Richard Bond</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ612">Keeper<lb></lb>
of the Tap at New Prison</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1213">Clerkenwell</rs>
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being laid before this Court Vizt.</p>
<p n="1370">To His Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ613">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1214">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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in their General Quarter Session of the peace assembled</p>
<p n="1371">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1371-1">Richard Bond</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ614">Keeper of the Tap</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1215">New Prison</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1372">Sheweth</p>
<p n="1373">That on the Twenty fifth day of March 1775 Your<lb></lb>
Petitioner took of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ615">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for this County the Tap<lb></lb>
at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1216">New Prison</rs>
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to hold the same at Will at the annual Rent of Thirty Pounds</p>
<p n="1374">That he has Constantly conformed to the instructions<lb></lb>
which he then received from the Justices and has supplied the prisoners with<lb></lb>
Hands and Liqours both good in Quality and Quantity and at a fair and<lb></lb>
reasonable price</p>
<p n="1375">That since the Commencement of the present<lb></lb>
War with france but more Especially during the Operation of the Act for<lb></lb>
Recruiting his Majestys Land and Marine forces the profits of the<lb></lb>
Tap have decreased in the proportion of Two thirds and the Taxes which<lb></lb>
Your petitioner pays for it are become extreamly heavy so that Your<lb></lb>
Petitioner now finds himself unable out of the present income from the Tap<lb></lb>
to pay to the County so high a Rent as £30. a Year without prejudice to his<lb></lb>
private fortune and injury to his Young family</p>
<p n="1376">Your</p>
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