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To the Worshipful his Majestys
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Justices of the peace
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The humble Petition of
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William Alexander Dodd
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George Wanley Bowes
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Sheweth
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That your Petitioners are
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Surveyors of the Highways
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in the
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for the present year and have used their best Endeavours for the
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Repairing and Amending the said ways
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That the greatest part of the statute work has been
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done and the composition Money duly laid out in the said Repairs
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but that the whole labour and Composition fell very short of the
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necessary means of compleating the said Business so that
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your Petitioners have necessarily expended about Thirty six
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Pounds therein and in compounding with the Turnpik'e Trust
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and still in disburse about Eighteen pounds thereof
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That there being some labour to be performed your
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Petitioners will be necessarily put to some further expences in
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digging Gravel and other Things to cooperate in the finishing
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of the said Repairs
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That a Rate of six pence in the pound on the Occupyors
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or Inhabitants within the said Parish will amount to about the
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sum of Twenty five pounds
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Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray are
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Order of this Honourable Coart for the making of a
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Rate of six pence in the pound in such manner
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as shall seem meet according to the form of the
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Statute in such Case lately provided
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And your Petitioners shall ever pray Etc.
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