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<p n="490">Bream<obscured></obscured>
13th June 1776<lb></lb>
Office of <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50665_occ128">Clerk of the Peace</rs>
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for the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50665_geo389">County of Middlesex</rs>
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13th, June 1776</p>
<p n="491">Sir</p>
<p n="492">Pursuant to your desire I take the earliest opportunity to acknowledge the<lb></lb>
receipt of one hundred printed Copies of the Act of parliament for obliging Overseers of the<lb></lb>
poor to make returns upon Oath relative to the State of their poor, But, as it is the intention<lb></lb>
of parliament that all the Acting Justices of the peace within the County should have one<lb></lb>
Copy of the said Act, I beg the favour of you to Transmit to me as many more, otherwise<lb></lb>
the distribution amongst the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50665_occ129">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for this County must be a very partial<lb></lb>
one, as there are near Two hundred Gentlemen who have Qualified as <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50665_occ130">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50665_geo390">Middlesex</rs>
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, and at some time or other Act in parochial Concerns.</p>
<p n="493">I Observe in your printed Letter to me that you desire I would Charge the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50665_occ131">High Constables</rs>
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to be careful in giving the Schedules to the Overseers of the poor of the several<lb></lb>
parishes and places within the Cities of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50665_geo391">London</rs>
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and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50665_geo392">Westminster</rs>
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With respect to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50665_geo393">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
it being a member of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50665_geo394">County of Middlesex</rs>
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I can fulfill your directions; but as to the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50665_geo395">City of London</rs>
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, as <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50665_occ132">clerk of the peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50665_geo396">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, I have no concern whatever<lb></lb>
with it, and therefore it will be necessary, if not already done, to Transmit a number of the Acts<lb></lb>
to the Town Clerk of that City: I have taken the Liberty to mention this Circumstance, lest<lb></lb>
any mistake might have ensued from it</p>
<p n="494">I am<lb></lb>
Sir<lb></lb>
Your very hble Servt.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50665_n494-1">Chas: Eyles</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="495"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50665_n495-1">Geo: White</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50665_occ133">Esq</rs>
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:</p>
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