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<p n="913">Session House for <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50793_geo1216">Middlesex</rs>
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20th. Janry 1785</p>
<p n="914">Minutes of the Committee appointed to<del>Audit the<lb></lb>
Account of the late Mr Benson Treasurer for the County and other<lb></lb>
matters</del>
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<p n="915">Present<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50793_n915-1">Nathaniel Conant</rs>
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Esqr<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50793_n915-2">Thomas Gordon</rs>
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Esqr<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50793_n915-3">William Bleamire</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50793_occ275">Esqr</rs>
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with Chair<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50793_n915-4">Joseph Faikney</rs>
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Esqr.</p>
<p n="916">Read the Order of Referrence to this Committee made at the last Session<lb></lb>
of the Peace holden for this County Vizt. <del>("To examine and adjust from<lb></lb>
time to time the Account or Accounts of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50793_occ276">Treasurer</rs>
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of this County as<lb></lb>
"will with respect to his Receipts as his Expenditures and also to<lb></lb>
"examine and audit all demands of what nature or kind soever<lb></lb>
"made upon this County previous to the Payment thereof.")and that no<lb></lb>
"demand shall be Aquidated unless first reported by the said<lb></lb>
"Committee and allowed by the Court</del>
to take and examine the<lb></lb>
"Account of the Executor or legal Representative of Mr <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50793_n916-1">John Benson</rs>
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"deceased late <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50793_occ277">Treasurer</rs>
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of this County of all Monies received and paid<lb></lb>
"by the said Mr Benson in his life time sence his last Account as<lb></lb>
"such Treasurer and Receiver".</p>
<p n="917">Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50793_n917-1">Benjamin Burchell</rs>
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attending for the legal<lb></lb>
Representative of Mr <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50793_n917-2">John Benson</rs>
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deceased late <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50793_occ278">Treasurer</rs>
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of this<lb></lb>
County The Committtee proceeded to examine the Accounts produced<lb></lb>
when it appeared as follows</p>
<p n="918">That there are three distinct heads of Account Vizt<lb></lb>
1st. County Rate<lb></lb>
2d. County Rents<lb></lb>
3d. Haymarket Tolls.</p>
<p n="919"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">I</note>
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That in respect to the County Rate the Accounts Mr Benson<lb></lb>
as <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50793_occ279">Treasurer</rs>
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of this County were made upexamined and<lb></lb>
allowed to the 20th. day of April last and by which Account there<lb></lb>
was a Balance remaining in his hands of £200..7..4½</p>
<p n="920"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">II</note>
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That by an Order of Court in April<lb></lb>
Session last a County Rate was directed to be<lb></lb>
levied for the Sum of}<lb></lb>
4000..0..0</p>
<p n="921"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">III</note>
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That Mr Benson received of the Rate<lb></lb>
immediately preceeding the Rate in April<lb></lb>
and which in the last settlement of this Accts.<lb></lb>
was charged as deficient}<lb></lb>
200..7..3½</p>
<p n="922">£4400..14..8.</p>
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