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<p n="462">May Session 1790</p>
<p n="463">Altho' the 24th. G. 3d. C 56 Sect 3 Enacts that the Court<lb></lb>
may appoint 2 Justices to Contract for the Transportation of Felons yet<lb></lb>
I think that is not compulsory upon but optional in the Court, and if that<lb></lb>
be not done I think the burthen as well as the power of doing it rests<lb></lb>
with and may be exercised by Government and that the Expences of<lb></lb>
removing Felons in order to be Transported will in the latter case as<lb></lb>
well as the former be legally chargeable on the County.</p>
<p n="464"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55610_n464-1">Geo: Wood</rs>
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Mid. Temple<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMSMGO55610_date12">26th. May 1790</rs>
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<p n="465">Messrs. Bleamire and Barnfather Read their Remarks<lb></lb>
thereon, and the Report of the Committee appointed to adjust and settle<lb></lb>
the Accounts of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55610_n465-3">Richard Akerman</rs>
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being tendered to this Court.</p>
<p n="466">Resolved that the said Case with such additional<lb></lb>
Observations as may be made thereon in Writing be referred back to Mr.<lb></lb>
Wood for his further Opinion and that the consideration of the Report be<lb></lb>
postponed till the next Session.</p>
<p n="467">By Adjournment same day.</p>
<p n="468">Whereas by virtue of an Act of Parliament made in the Twelfth<lb></lb>
Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second intituled<lb></lb>
"An Act for the more easy Assessing collecting and levying County Rates."<lb></lb>
the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55610_occ157">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in that part of Great Britain called <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55610_geo286">England</rs>
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within the respective limits of their Commissions at their General or<lb></lb>
Quarter Sessions or the greater part of them then and there assembled<lb></lb>
having full power and authority from time to time to make one general<lb></lb>
Rate or Assessment for such Sum or Sums of Money as the Justices in their<lb></lb>
discretion shall think sufficient to answer all and every the ends and<lb></lb>
purposes mentioned in the said Act Now for as much as it appeareth<lb></lb>
unto this Court that more than three fourths of the Money of the last Rate<lb></lb>
made in October Session last being preceeding Rate hath been paid and<lb></lb>
expended to answer the ends and purposes mentioned in the said Act of<lb></lb>
Parliament and that it is necessary a considerable Sum of Money should<lb></lb>
be raised and a Rate made upon the Towns Parishes and Places in the<lb></lb>
said County for raising of Money to answer the several ends and purposes<lb></lb>
mentioned in the said Act of Parliament This Court upon consideration<lb></lb>
of the Premises is of Opinion and doth accordingly Order that a</p>
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