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13th June 1776
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Office of
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for the
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13th, June 1776
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Sir
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Pursuant to your desire I take the earliest opportunity to acknowledge the
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receipt of one hundred printed Copies of the Act of parliament for obliging Overseers of the
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poor to make returns upon Oath relative to the State of their poor, But, as it is the intention
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of parliament that all the Acting Justices of the peace within the County should have one
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Copy of the said Act, I beg the favour of you to Transmit to me as many more, otherwise
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the distribution amongst the
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for this County must be a very partial
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one, as there are near Two hundred Gentlemen who have Qualified as
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for
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, and at some time or other Act in parochial Concerns.
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I Observe in your printed Letter to me that you desire I would Charge the
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High Constables
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to be careful in giving the Schedules to the Overseers of the poor of the several
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parishes and places within the Cities of
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London
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and
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it being a member of the
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I can fulfill your directions; but as to the
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, as
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for the
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, I have no concern whatever
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with it, and therefore it will be necessary, if not already done, to Transmit a number of the Acts
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to the Town Clerk of that City: I have taken the Liberty to mention this Circumstance, lest
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any mistake might have ensued from it
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I am
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Sir
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Your very hble Servt.
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Chas: Eyles
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Esq
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