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<note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65511_n227-1">West-Riding</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65511_geo187">Yorkshire</rs>
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.To wit.</note>
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At the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of the Lord the King, holden at Pontefract, in and for the West-Riding of the County of<lb></lb>
York, on Monday in the first whole Week after the Close of Easter, (to wit) the 16th Day of April, in the Thirty-eighth Year of the<lb></lb>
Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of<lb></lb>
the Faith, and so forth, Before <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65511_n227-2">Bacon Frank</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65511_occ56">Esq</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65511_occ57">Chairman</rs>
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, Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65511_n227-3">George Armytage</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65511_occ58">Bart</rs>
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. the Reverend H. W. Coulthurst, Doctor<lb></lb>
in Divinity; the Reverend James Stovin, Clerk; <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65511_n227-4">John Blayds</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65511_n227-5">John Beckett</rs>
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, Francis Edmunds, <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65511_n227-6">Bryan Cooke</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65511_occ59">Esquires</rs>
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; the<lb></lb>
Reverend <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65511_n227-7">William Wood</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65511_n227-8">Jeremiah Dixon</rs>
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, Clerks; <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65511_n227-9">Benjamin Brooksbank</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65511_n227-10">John G<obscured></obscured>
ly Knight</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65511_n227-11">Richard Green</rs>
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, Samuel<lb></lb>
Waterhouse and G.W. Wentworth, <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65511_occ60">Esquires</rs>
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; <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65511_occ61">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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there, Etc.</hi>
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<p n="228">IT IS ORDERED AS FOLLOWS, (to wit)</p>
<p n="229">By Virtue of a late Act of Parliament, intituled, "An Act for the better repairing and amending the High-<lb></lb>
ways, and for settling the Rates for Carriage of Goods," <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65511_n229-1">his Majesty</rs>
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's <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65511_occ62">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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at the said Quarter Sessions assembled, do assess<lb></lb>
and rate the Prices of all Land Carriage of Goods whatsoever, (except Gold and Silver Plate, Jewels and Money) to be brought to or carried<lb></lb>
from, any Place or Places within this Riding, by any common Waggoner or Carrier, at the respective Rates and Prices following. viz.</p>
<p n="230">From London to Bawtry, Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield, Barnsley, Pontefract, Wakefield, Leeds, or any other Place within this Riding, as far<lb></lb>
distant from London as Leeds is, from the 16th Day of April, 1798, until the next General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, to be holden for the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65511_geo188">Riding</rs>
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, at Pontefract, after Easter next, One Shilling per Stone; and for every odd Pound above a Stone, or any Number of Pounds, One Penny,<lb></lb>
and no more, and after that Rate; and for every Parcel or Packet under a Stone. One Shilling, and in like Manner for the reverse from Doncaster,<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
London, the like Rates.</p>
<p n="231">To Halifax, Huddersfield, Bradford, and other Places of greater Distance from <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65511_geo189">London</rs>
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than Wakefield, Thirteen-pence per Stone, from the said<lb></lb>
16th Day of April, to the said next Easter Sessions.</p>
<p n="232">From London to Boroughbridge, Thirteen-pence per Stone from the said 16th Day of April, to the said next Easter Sessions, and for every odd<lb></lb>
Pound above a Stone One Penny; and for every Parcel or Packet under a Stone, Thirteen-pence, and no more; and the same for the reverse.</p>
<p n="233">From London to Settle. One Shilling and One Halfpenny per Stone, during all the same Time; and for every odd Pound above a Stone one<lb></lb>
Penny; and for every Parcel or Packet under a Stone, One Shilling, and no more; and the like for the reverse.</p>
<p n="234">From London to any Place within this Riding, that is distant from London Twenty Miles further than Leeds is, (except the particular Places<lb></lb>
before mentioned) Thirteen-pence per Stone during all the same Time, and proportionably for a greater or lesser Distance; and for every odd Pound<lb></lb>
above a Stone, or any Number of Pounds, One Penny, and no more; and for every Parcel or Packet under a Stone, One Shilling and one Penny,<lb></lb>
and no more; and the like for the reverse.</p>
<p n="235">From York to Wakefield, or any other Place within this<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
that is Twenty Miles distant from York, Two-pence per Stone during all the same<lb></lb>
Time, and proportionably for a greater or lesser Distance;<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
ry odd Pound, One Farthing; and the like for the reverse.</p>
<p n="236">From Pontesfract to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, or any other Place within this Riding to ditto, of equal Distance, Eight-pence per Stone, from the said<lb></lb>
16th Day of April, until the said next Easter Sessions. <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65511_n236-1">From Sheffield</rs>
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to Wakefield, Two-pence per Stone. From Skipton to Leeds, Two-pence per<lb></lb>
Stone. From Skipton to Tadcaster, Three-pence per Stone. From Leeds to Sheffield, Three-pence per Stone. <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65511_n236-2">From Sheffield</rs>
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to Pontefract, Two-<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65511_n236-3">pence Halfpenny</rs>
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per Stone. From Pontefract to York, Two-pence per Stone.</p>
<p n="237">From any Place out of this Riding, to any Place of Twenty Miles Distance in this Riding, and from any one Place to another, of the same<lb></lb>
Distance within this Riding, Two-pence per Stone, and proportionably for a greater or lesser Distance, and for every odd Pound, One Farthing,<lb></lb>
and the like for the reverse.</p>
<p n="238"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">A Horse Pack is Sixteen Stone, at<lb></lb>
14lb. per Stone.</note>
<lb></lb>
From Leeds or Wakefield, to Selby or Turnbridge, and from any other Market Town or Place within this Riding to Selby or Turnbridge, as far<lb></lb>
distant from the same respectively as Leeds is, and so for the reverse; a Truss containing four Horse Packs, and proportionably more or less, from<lb></lb>
May-day to Michaelmas, Six Shillings; from Michaelmas to Christmas, Eight Shillings; from Christmas to May-day, Ten Shillings and Six-pence<lb></lb>
and proportionably for a greater or lesser Distance.</p>
<p n="239"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">A Ton is Ten Horse Packs.</note>
<lb></lb>
From Selby or Turnbridge, to <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65511_geo190">Leeds or Wakefield</rs>
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, or any other Market Town or Place within this Riding, as far distant from Selby or Turnbridge as<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65511_geo191">Leeds</rs>
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is; and so for the reverse; from May-day to Michaelmas, Twelve Shillings per Ton, from Michaelmas to Christmas, Sixteen Shillings per<lb></lb>
Ton; from Christmas to May-day, Twenty Shillings per Ton; and proportionably more or less for a greater or lesser Distance.</p>
<p n="240">And it is ordered by this Court, "That these Rates be printed, and immediately certified by the <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65511_occ63">Clerk of the Peace</rs>
<interp inst="LMWJPS65511_occ63" type="occupation" value="Clerk of the Peace"></interp>
for this Riding, to the Lord<lb></lb>
"Mayor of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65511_geo192">City of London</rs>
<interp inst="LMWJPS65511_geo192" type="placeName" value="City of London"></interp>
<interp inst="LMWJPS65511_geo192" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
, and to the respective <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65511_occ64">Clerks of the Peace</rs>
<interp inst="LMWJPS65511_occ64" type="occupation" value="Clerks of the Peace"></interp>
for the<obscured></obscured>
the City and Liberty of<lb></lb>
"<obscured></obscured>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65511_occ65">Lord Mayor</rs>
<interp inst="LMWJPS65511_occ65" type="occupation" value="Lord Mayor"></interp>
of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65511_geo193">City of York</rs>
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, and the Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and to the several Mayors and<lb></lb>
"other Chief Officers of each respective Market Town within this Riding, to be hung up in some public Place, in every such Market Town, to<lb></lb>
"which all Persons may resort for their Information; And to the End that no common Waggoner or Carrier may be ignorant of the Law, they may<lb></lb>
"hereby take Notice, that none of them is to take for Carriage of Goods and <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65511_occ66">Merchandize</rs>
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, above the Rates and Prices hereby set, upon Pain to<lb></lb>
"forfeit for every such Offence, the Sum of <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65511_geo194">FIVE</rs>
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POUNDS, to be levied by Distress and Sale of his or their Goods, by Warrant of any two<lb></lb>
"<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65511_occ67">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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, where such Waggoner or Carrier shall reside, in Manner as by the said Act is appointed, to the use of the Party grieved."</p>
<p n="241">BY THE COURT,<lb></lb>
THOMAS WYBERCH,<lb></lb>
CLERK OF THE PEACE FOR THE SAID RIDING.</p>
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