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DEVON.
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(To Wit.)}
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THESE ARE TO CERTIFY, That at the General Quarter Sessions
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of the Peace of our Lord the King, held for the Said
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, on the 25th Day of
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April, in the Year of our Lord 1781the Justices of and
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for the
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aforesaid did, in Pursuance of an Act of
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Parliament made in the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign
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of their late Majesties King William and Queen Mary,
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intituled, "An Act for the better repairing and amend-
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"ing the Highways, and for settling the Rates of
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"Carriage of Goods," asses and rate the Prices of Land-
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Carriage of Goods as follows:
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NO Carrier within the said County shall have, or take, more than Eight-pence,
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for Carriage of One Hundred Weight of Goods or Wares (reckoning One
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Hundred and Twelve Pounds to each Hundred) to any Place not exceeding Ten Miles
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from the Market-town or Place where the same shall be delivered him, and so pro-
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portionably for every Half-hundred,
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rter of a Hundred, or any greater or less
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Weight: and also proportionably
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ALSO, No Waggoner or CarrI
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weighing a Quarter of a Hundred or upwards, from
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Honiton
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, shall take more
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than at the Rate of Seven Shillings and Sixpence a Hundred, (reckoning One Hun-
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dred and Twelve Pounds to each Hundred); and if under, a Quarter of an Hundred,
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not more than Three Half-pence by the Pound; and so proportionably to any other
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Town or Place within the said County, according to its Distance from London.
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ALSO, No Carrier shall have or take, for Carriage of any Goods on Horseback,
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weighing a Qaarter of an Hundred or upwards, to any Market-town or Place within
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this County, whose Distance doth not exceed One Hundred Miles from the Market-
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town or Place where the same shall be delivered, more than after the Rate of Six
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Shillings a Hundred, (reckoning One Hundred and Twelve Pounds to the Hundred);
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and if under a Quarter of an Hundred, not more than Three Half-pence a Pound;
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and so proportionably for any greater Weight, or greater or less Distance.
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ALSO, No Waggoner or Carrier shall have or take, for Carriage by Waggon of
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any Goods weighing a Quarter or an Hundred or upwards, to any Market-town or
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Four Shillings a Hundred, (reckoning One Hundred and Twelve Pounds to the Hun-
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By the COURT.
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: Printed by R. TREWMAN. 1781.
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