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AT the General Quarter Session of the Peace<lb></lb>
of our Lord the King, holden in and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50665_geo206">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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, at Hicks-Hall, in Saint <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50665_geo207">John-Street</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
(by adjournment) on Thursday the eleventh<lb></lb>
Day of Julyin the sixteenth Year of the<lb></lb>
Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, King of<lb></lb>
Great Britain, Etc. Before The Revd Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50665_n322-1">George Booth</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50665_occ98">Baronet</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50665_n322-2">David Walker</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50665_n322-3">David Wilmot</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50665_n322-4">John Sherwood</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Esquires and others their Fellows Justices of our said Lord<lb></lb>
the King assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid<lb></lb>
and also to hear and determine divers felonies Trespasses<lb></lb>
and other misdemeanours committed in the same County</p>
<p n="323">Whereas The Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the parish of<lb></lb>
Saint John the Evangelist in the City of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50665_geo208">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50665_geo209">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Have at this present Session Exhibited their Petition and Appeal setting forth<lb></lb>
That by virtue of a pass Warrant or Order under the Hands and Seals of W.<lb></lb>
Martin and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50665_n323-7">Geo: Reid</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50665_occ99">Esquires</rs>
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two of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50665_occ100">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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acting in and for the City and Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50665_geo210">Westminster</rs>
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(one whereof being of<lb></lb>
the Quorum) bearing date the 29th day of May 1776 <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50665_n323-1">Christiana Smith</rs>
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aged<lb></lb>
8 Years and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50665_n323-2">Mary Smith</rs>
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aged 7 Years were removed and conveyed from<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50665_geo211">parish of St James within the Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50665_geo212">County of Middlesex</rs>
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to the said parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50665_geo213">Saint John the Evangelist</rs>
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as the place of the last legal<lb></lb>
Settlement of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50665_n323-3">Christiana Smith</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50665_n323-4">Mary Smith</rs>
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Whereby the<lb></lb>
Petitioners conceived themselves aggrieved Now upon hearing the said Appeal<lb></lb>
in the presence and hearing of the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor<lb></lb>
of the parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50665_geo214">Saint James Westminster</rs>
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and they consenting by their<lb></lb>
Counsel to the allowing the said Appeal It is ordered that the said Appeal<lb></lb>
be and the same is hereby allowed and the said Pass Warrant or order of<lb></lb>
the said two Justices is hereby vacated and set aside and It is further ordered<lb></lb>
that the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the parish of Saint John<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50665_geo215">Westminster</rs>
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do forthwith convey and deliver back the said Christiana<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50665_n323-5">Mary Smith</rs>
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unto the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the<lb></lb>
parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50665_geo216">Saint James Westminster</rs>
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or to some or one of them who are<lb></lb>
hereby required to receive and provide for the said Christiana and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50665_n323-6">Mary<lb></lb>
Smith</rs>
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until they can free themselves from the charge thereof by due<lb></lb>
Course of Law</p>
<p n="324">By the Court</p>
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