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Portesmouth.</rs>
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At the General Sessions of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the King,<lb></lb>
holden at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo415">Guild-Hall</rs>
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, in and for the said Borough, on the Twenty<lb></lb>
Seventh Day of April in the Twenty First<lb></lb>
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third<lb></lb>
King or Great-Britain and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50740_n405-1">Edward Linzee</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50740_occ247">Esqr</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50740_occ248">Mayor</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50740_n405-2">John Carter</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50740_occ250">Justices</rs>
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assigned to keep the Peace<lb></lb>
of our said Lord the King, within the said Borough, etc. </p>
<p n="406"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">By the Court</note>
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His Majesty's Justices of the Peace present at this General Sessions, by Virtue<lb></lb>
of An Act of Parliament, entitled An Act for the better repairing and amend-<lb></lb>
ing the Highways, and for settling the Rates of Carriage of Goods, Do assess<lb></lb>
and rate the Prices of all Land Carriage of Goods whatsoever, to be carried<lb></lb>
and brough to and from <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo416">London</rs>
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, <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo417">Southwark</rs>
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, or elsewhere, into any Parts of the<lb></lb>
Liberty of the said Borough, in manner following, that is to say, from the Day<lb></lb>
of the Date hereof, until Michaelmas next, for every Hundred Weight of all<lb></lb>
weighable Goods, containing One Hundred and Twelve Pounds to the Hundred,<lb></lb>
to the Carrier for the same, for every Twenty measured Miles One Shilling and<lb></lb>
One Penny half Penny and so proportionably for a greater or lesser<lb></lb>
Quantity not under a Quarter of a Hundred Weight; And from Michaelmas<lb></lb>
next, to the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which shall<lb></lb>
be in the Year of our Lord 1782, for every Hundred Weight of all weighab<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Goods, containing One Hundred and Twelve Pounds to the Hundred, to th<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Carrier for the same for every Twenty measured Miles One Shilling and Five<lb></lb>
Pence and so proportionably for any greater or lesser Quantity<lb></lb>
not under a Quarter of a Hundred Weight; And the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50740_occ251">Clerk of the Peace</rs>
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of the<lb></lb>
said Borough is hereby required to make this Order publickly known.</p>
<p n="407">Examined by me <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50740_n407-1">Geo Huish</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50740_occ252">Clerk of the Peace</rs>
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of the<lb></lb>
said Borough</p>
<p n="408"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo418">Borough of<lb></lb>
Portesmouth</rs>
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I <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50740_n408-1">George Huish</rs>
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of the said Borough do in Obedience to an Act.<lb></lb>
of Parliament passed in the Twenty First Year of the Reign of King George the Second<lb></lb>
hereby certify to the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50740_occ254">Clerk of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo419">County of Middlesex</rs>
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that the above is a<lb></lb>
true Copy of a Rate & Assessment made for the Carriage of Goods at the last Easter<lb></lb>
Sessions held in & for the said Borough in Pursuance of an Act of Parliament of the<lb></lb>
third Year of the Reign of King William & Queen Mary. Witness my Hand the<lb></lb>
30th. of April 1781.</p>
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