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At the General Sessions of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the King,
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Seventh Day of April in the Twenty First
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King or Great-Britain and so forth, before
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assigned to keep the Peace
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of our said Lord the King, within the said Borough, etc.
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His Majesty's Justices of the Peace present at this General Sessions, by Virtue
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of An Act of Parliament, entitled An Act for the better repairing and amend-
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ing the Highways, and for settling the Rates of Carriage of Goods, Do assess
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and brough to and from
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, or elsewhere, into any Parts of the
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Liberty of the said Borough, in manner following, that is to say, from the Day
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of the Date hereof, until Michaelmas next, for every Hundred Weight of all
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weighable Goods, containing One Hundred and Twelve Pounds to the Hundred,
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to the Carrier for the same, for every Twenty measured Miles One Shilling and
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One Penny half Penny and so proportionably for a greater or lesser
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Quantity not under a Quarter of a Hundred Weight; And from Michaelmas
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next, to the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which shall
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be in the Year of our Lord 1782, for every Hundred Weight of all weighab
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Goods, containing One Hundred and Twelve Pounds to the Hundred, to th
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Carrier for the same for every Twenty measured Miles One Shilling and Five
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of the
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said Borough is hereby required to make this Order publickly known.
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Examined by me
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George Huish
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of the said Borough do in Obedience to an Act.
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of Parliament passed in the Twenty First Year of the Reign of King George the Second
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hereby certify to the
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that the above is a
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true Copy of a Rate & Assessment made for the Carriage of Goods at the last Easter
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Sessions held in & for the said Borough in Pursuance of an Act of Parliament of the
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third Year of the Reign of King William & Queen Mary. Witness my Hand the
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30th. of April 1781.
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