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At the General Sessions of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the King held at the
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in and for the said Borough on the Eighth day of May in the Seventh Year of the Reign of
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our Sovereign Lord George the Third King of Grat Britain and so forth before
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Philip Varls
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Gent Justices
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assigned to keep the Peace of our said Lord the King within the said Borough Etc
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the Conr
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His Majestys Justices of the Peace present at this General Sessions by Virtue of an Act of Parliament
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entitled An Act for the better repairing and amending the Highways and for settling the Rates for
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Carriage of Goods, Do assess and rate the Prices of all Land Carriage of Goods whatsoever to be
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carried and brought to and from
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or elsewhere late any Parts of the Liberty of
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the said Borough in manner following, that is to say, from the day of the date here of until
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Michaelmas next for every Hundred Weight of all weighable Goods containing One Hundred and
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Twelve Pounds to the Hundred, to the Carrier for the same for every Twenty Miles One Shilling Etc
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Four Pence and to proper honably for a greater or lesser Quantity not under a Quarter of a Hundred
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Weight; and from Michaclmas next to the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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which shall be in the Year of our Lord 1768 for every Hundred Weight of all weighable Goods
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containing One Hundred and Twelve Pounds to the Hundred, to the Carrier for the same for every
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Twenty Miles One Shilling & Eight Pence and so proportionally for any greater or lesser Quantity
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not under a Quarter of a Hundred Weight; And the
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of the said Borough is
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hereby required to make this Order publickly known
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Examined by me
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I George Huish
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for the said Borough do in Obediea
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to an Act of
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Parliament passed in the Twenty First Year of the Reign of King George the Second hereby
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certify to the
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that the above is a true Copy of a
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Rate and Assessment made for the Carriage of Goods at the last Easter Sessions held in & for
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the said Borough in Pursuance of an Act of Parliament of the third Year of the Reign of King
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William & Queen Mary Witness my Hand the Thirteenth day of May 1767.
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Geo Huish
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