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