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unwatched unrepaired and unsafe ways and passages intervening and
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laying between such parts of the said parish and your petitioner's said
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promises so that she has not received nor doth or can she receive the
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benefit intended to be given in and by the said Act of parliament
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made in the Twenty Seventh year of his late Majesty's Reign.
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And that by a certain Subsequent Act of Parliament made in the
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First year of the reign of his present Majesty Intituled "An Act for
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Making Widening and repairing a Road from the North East side of
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and
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near the Road called the new Road over the Fields and Grounds to
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opposite to the Doghouse Bar and at and from
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the Doghouse
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Bar to the End of
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Chiswell Street
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by the
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Artillery Ground
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" It is enacted
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"That the Trustees appointed under the same shall cause such and so many
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Lamps to be Erected upon the said Road to be repaired by Virtue of
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such Act And also to appoint such a number of fit and able bodied
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men to Watch and Guard the said Road in the Night time as they the
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said Trustees shall think proper and necessary" It is also Enacted by the
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said Act "That no part of the said Road shall be paved and that if
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any part of the said Road shall be paved the same shall be deemed
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a Common Nuisance" And which said Act by another Act made in the
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Twenty Third year of the Reign of his said present Majesty for enlarging
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the Term and powers of the aforesaid Act, made in the first year of his
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present Majesty, the term therein mentioned, was enlarged for the further
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Term of Twenty One years
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That your petitioner did never apply for or wanted any better
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enlightening and cleansing repairing and Watching the Road or Highway
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Contiguous to or near her said Messuage or Tenement and appurtenances
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other than such as she received under and by virtue of the said Acts
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made in the First and Twenty Third years of his present Majesty's reign
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Therefore your petitioner humbly appeals against the
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said Assessment and Warrant and Distress made there or
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And prays that your Worships will please to give her
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such relief in the premises and make such Order therein as
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shall be just and reasonable
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And your petitioner shall ever pray Etc.
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