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first Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third of
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Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the faith, and so
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of our said Lord the king, assigned to keep the Peace of our said
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Lord the King in the said Town and County Etc
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THE said Justices by Virtue of an Act of Parliament, intitled An Act
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for the better Repairing and Amending the Highways, and for the Set-
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Land-carriage of all Goods whatsoever,(except Gold and Silver Plate,
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Jewels and Money)which shall from and after the said twenty-fifth Day
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of April Instant until the first General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, to
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be holden in and for the said Town and County after Easter Day now next
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ensuing, be brought by any Common Waggoner or Carrier, into this
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Town and County from the Places hereafter-mentioned respectively, at
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the respective Rates and Prices following,viz
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"LMSMPS50740_geo474"
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"type"
value
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"undefined"
>
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the Lord Mayor
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</
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of the
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id
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"LMSMPS50740_geo475"
>
City of York
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inst
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type
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value
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"City of York"
>
</
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inst
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"LMSMPS50740_geo475"
type
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"undefined"
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the Mayor of
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rs
type
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id
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>
Pontefract
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>
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inst
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=
"Pontefract"
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interp
inst
=
"LMSMPS50740_geo476"
type
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=
"undefined"
>
</
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>
, the Mayor of the
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rs
type
=
"placeName"
id
=
"LMSMPS50740_geo477"
>
Town of
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</
lb
>
Leeds
</
rs
>
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interp
inst
=
"LMSMPS50740_geo477"
type
=
"placeName"
value
=
"Town ofLeeds"
>
</
interp
>
<
interp
inst
=
"LMSMPS50740_geo477"
type
=
"type"
value
=
"undefined"
>
</
interp
>
, the Mayor of the
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rs
type
=
"placeName"
id
=
"LMSMPS50740_geo478"
>
Town of Ripon
</
rs
>
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interp
inst
=
"LMSMPS50740_geo478"
type
=
"placeName"
value
=
" Town of Ripon"
>
</
interp
>
<
interp
inst
=
"LMSMPS50740_geo478"
type
=
"type"
value
=
"undefined"
>
</
interp
>
, to the Mayor of the
<
rs
type
=
"placeName"
id
=
"LMSMPS50740_geo479"
>
City of Car-
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
lisle
</
rs
>
<
interp
inst
=
"LMSMPS50740_geo479"
type
=
"placeName"
value
=
"City of Car-lisle"
>
</
interp
>
<
interp
inst
=
"LMSMPS50740_geo479"
type
=
"type"
value
=
"undefined"
>
</
interp
>
the Bailiff of the
<
rs
type
=
"placeName"
id
=
"LMSMPS50740_geo480"
>
Manor of Hexham
</
rs
>
<
interp
inst
=
"LMSMPS50740_geo480"
type
=
"placeName"
value
=
"Manor of Hexham"
>
</
interp
>
<
interp
inst
=
"LMSMPS50740_geo480"
type
=
"type"
value
=
"undefined"
>
</
interp
>
, and the Lord Provost of the
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
<
rs
type
=
"placeName"
id
=
"LMSMPS50740_geo481"
>
City of Edingburgh
</
rs
>
<
interp
inst
=
"LMSMPS50740_geo481"
type
=
"placeName"
value
=
"City of Edingburgh"
>
</
interp
>
<
interp
inst
=
"LMSMPS50740_geo481"
type
=
"type"
value
=
"undefined"
>
</
interp
>
, to be them respectively hung up in Proper public
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
Places, to which all Persons may report for Information; And to the End,
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
That no Common Waggoner or Carrier may be ignorant of the Law,
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
They may hereof take Notice, That none of them shall take for Carriage of
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
Goods and Merchandize above the Rates and Prices hereby set, upon Pain
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
to forfeit, for every such Offence the Sum of five Ponds to beleived
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
by Distress and Sale of his and their Goods by Warrant or any two Ju-
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
<
rs
type
=
"occupation"
id
=
"LMSMPS50740_occ290"
>
stices of the Peace
</
rs
>
<
interp
inst
=
"LMSMPS50740_occ290"
type
=
"occupation"
value
=
"stices of the Peace"
>
</
interp
>
where such Waggoner and Carrier shall reside in Man-
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
ner as by the said Act is appointed to the Use of the Party Grieved
</
p
>
<
p
n
=
"451"
>
By the Court
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
GIBSON
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
Clerk of the Peace for the said Town and County
</
p
>
</
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>
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