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At the General Sessions of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the King held at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50572_geo425">Guild Hall</rs>
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in and for the said Borough on the Eighth day of May in the Seventh Year of the Reign of<lb></lb>
our Sovereign Lord George the Third King of Grat Britain and so forth before <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50572_n765-1">Edward<lb></lb>
Linzee</rs>
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Esqr. Mayor <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50572_n765-2">John Carter</rs>
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Esqr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50572_n765-3">Thomas White</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50572_n765-4">Philip Varls</rs>
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Gent Justices<lb></lb>
assigned to keep the Peace of our said Lord the King within the said Borough Etc</p>
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His Majestys Justices of the Peace present at this General Sessions by Virtue of an Act of Parliament<lb></lb>
entitled An Act for the better repairing and amending the Highways and for settling the Rates for<lb></lb>
Carriage of Goods, Do assess and rate the Prices of all Land Carriage of Goods whatsoever to be<lb></lb>
carried and brought to and from <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50572_geo426">London Southwark</rs>
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or elsewhere late any Parts of the Liberty of<lb></lb>
the said Borough in manner following, that is to say, from the day of the date here of until<lb></lb>
Michaelmas next for every Hundred Weight of all weighable Goods containing One Hundred and<lb></lb>
Twelve Pounds to the Hundred, to the Carrier for the same for every Twenty Miles One Shilling Etc<lb></lb>
Four Pence and to proper honably for a greater or lesser Quantity not under a Quarter of a Hundred<lb></lb>
Weight; and from Michaclmas next to the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary<lb></lb>
which shall be in the Year of our Lord 1768 for every Hundred Weight of all weighable Goods<lb></lb>
containing One Hundred and Twelve Pounds to the Hundred, to the Carrier for the same for every<lb></lb>
Twenty Miles One Shilling & Eight Pence and so proportionally for any greater or lesser Quantity<lb></lb>
not under a Quarter of a Hundred Weight; And the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50572_occ157">Clerk of the Peace</rs>
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of the said Borough is<lb></lb>
hereby required to make this Order publickly known</p>
<p n="767">Examined by me <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50572_n767-1">Geo Huish</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
said Borough</p>
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I George Huish <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50572_occ159">Clerk of the Peace</rs>
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for the said Borough do in Obediea<obscured></obscured>
to an Act of<lb></lb>
Parliament passed in the Twenty First Year of the Reign of King George the Second hereby<lb></lb>
certify to the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50572_occ160">Clerk of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50572_geo427">County of Middlesex</rs>
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that the above is a true Copy of a<lb></lb>
Rate and Assessment made for the Carriage of Goods at the last Easter Sessions held in & for<lb></lb>
the said Borough in Pursuance of an Act of Parliament of the third Year of the Reign of King<lb></lb>
William & Queen Mary Witness my Hand the Thirteenth day of May 1767.</p>
<p n="769">Geo Huish</p>
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