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At the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord
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the King, holden at the
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, on Tuesday in the first Week after the Clause
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of Easter, to wit, the second Day of April, in the thirty-ninth
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Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by
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the Grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King,
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Defender of the Faith, and so forth, and in the Year of our Lord
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1799; before
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Charles Shaw Lefevre
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Wither,
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, and other their Fellows, Justices of our said Lord
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the King, assigned to keep the Peace of our said Lord the King, in the
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County aforesaid, and also to hear and determine divers Felonies, Tres-
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passes, and other Misdeeds committed in the same County.
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PURSUANT to an Act of Parliament made and passed in the
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Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of their late Majesties
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Justices of the Peace
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of the County aforesaid, now assembled at this present Session, do
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hereby assess and rate the Prices of Land Carriage of all Goods
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whatsoever, to be brought into or carried from Place to Place,
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within any Part of the County aforesaid, by any common
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or Carrier, in Manner following, that is to say:
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For every Hundred Weight of all weighable Goods, containing
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one Hundred and Twelve Pounds to the Hundred, the Sum of
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One Shilling for every Twenty Miles, and so in Proportion for
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any greater or lesser Number of Miles.
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For all Parcels under Fourteen Pounds Weight, the Sum of
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Six pence for each Parcel. And
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For all Parcels above Fourteen Pounds, and under Twenty-eight
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Pounds Weight, the Sum of One Shilling for each Parcel.
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And, that no such common Waggoner or Carrier shall take for
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the Carriage of such Goods above the Rates and Prices aforesaid
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upon Pain to forfeit for every Offence the Sum of Five Pounds, to
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be levied by Distress and Sale of his and their Goods, by Warrant
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of any two
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, where such Waggoner or Carrier
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shall reside, to the Use of the Party aggrieved.
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And this Court doth Order, that the said Rates and Assessments
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shall be certified to the several Mayors and other chief Officers of
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each Market-Town in the said County, to be hung up in some
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public Place, in every such Market-Town, to which all Persons
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may resort for Information.
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PETER GAUNTLETT.
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