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<p n="402">To the Worshipful his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50588_occ136">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50588_geo413">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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in their Quarter Session Assembled</p>
<p n="403">The humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50588_n403-1">William Alexander Dodd</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50588_n403-2">George Wanley Bowes</rs>
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<p n="404"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That your Petitioners are <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50588_occ137">Surveyors of the Highways</rs>
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within the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50588_geo414">parish of Hanwell</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50588_geo415">County of Middlesex</rs>
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for the present year and have used their best Endeavours for the<lb></lb>
Repairing and Amending the said ways</p>
<p n="405">That the greatest part of the statute work has been<lb></lb>
done and the composition Money duly laid out in the said Repairs<lb></lb>
but that the whole labour and Composition fell very short of the<lb></lb>
necessary means of compleating the said Business so that<lb></lb>
your Petitioners have necessarily expended about Thirty six<lb></lb>
Pounds therein and in compounding with the Turnpik'e Trust<lb></lb>
and still in disburse about Eighteen pounds thereof</p>
<p n="406">That there being some labour to be performed your<lb></lb>
Petitioners will be necessarily put to some further expences in<lb></lb>
digging Gravel and other Things to cooperate in the finishing<lb></lb>
of the said Repairs</p>
<p n="407">That a Rate of six pence in the pound on the Occupyors<lb></lb>
or Inhabitants within the said Parish will amount to about the<lb></lb>
sum of Twenty five pounds</p>
<p n="408">Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray are<lb></lb>
Order of this Honourable Coart for the making of a<lb></lb>
Rate of six pence in the pound in such manner<lb></lb>
as shall seem meet according to the form of the<lb></lb>
Statute in such Case lately provided</p>
<p n="409">And your Petitioners shall ever pray Etc.</p>
<p n="410"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50588_n410-1">Wm: Alex. Dodd</rs>
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