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. Monday Morng: 17th October 1785.
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Sir
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I was lately favoured with your Letter to me, franked by our worthy
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member for this County, and Chairman of the County Sessions; As Also, (a few
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Days after,) with a printed recommendatory Letter from the
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Clerk of the Peace
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of this County, in further testimony of the Court's Approbation of the Motion
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of the last Sessions, respecting Surveyors of Parish Highways, within
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this County.I presume to imagine, that the Justices of this
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Division had not any such printed recommendatory Letter sent to them,
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as they did on "Thursday last, the 13th Day of October instant 1785, ("being
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"previous to the Michaelmas Sessions;) "Appoint, divers Surveyors
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of Parish Highways;- and some of them, are "Publicans.vizt
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Mr.
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Elias Cullifor
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, at the
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Sign of the Duke's Head
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Victualler
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,
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(Surveyor for
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I know of no other way, (to get into the Line of the said printed recommend-
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=atory Letter) but, "for the worthy Chairman of the Sessions to be pleased
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to look at the Act for the Highways, of the 13th Geo 3d, chap 78,-"whereby,
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he will soon see,-"Whether, the Appointment of Surveyors "on
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the said 13th Day of October instant, (being "before the Michaelmas
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Sessions;) is "premature?, or "valid?If premature;"that
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the
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Justices of this Division
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, may, (by that
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Gentleman
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,) be requested,
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to make "fresh Appointments of Surveyors.
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Pray be so obliging, (during the present Sessions,) as to lay this
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Letter before the Chairman of the said Sessions, accompanied to him,
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with my most respectfull Compliments. who am Sir
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Your most humble Servant.
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Jno Lane
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P.S:
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I desire the favour of an Answer
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at your first convenience}
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