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<p n="976"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65516_geo594">SOUTHAMPTON</rs>
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At the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord<lb></lb>
the King, holden at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65516_geo595">Castle of Winchester</rs>
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, in and for the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65516_geo596">County of Southampton</rs>
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, on Tuesday in the first Week after the Clause<lb></lb>
of Easter, to wit, the second Day of April, in the thirty-ninth<lb></lb>
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by<lb></lb>
the Grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King,<lb></lb>
Defender of the Faith, and so forth, and in the Year of our Lord<lb></lb>
1799; before <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65516_n976-2">Charles Shaw Lefevre</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65516_occ305">Chairman</rs>
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, Lovelace Bigg<lb></lb>
Wither, <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65516_occ306">Esquires</rs>
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, and other their Fellows, Justices of our said Lord<lb></lb>
the King, assigned to keep the Peace of our said Lord the King, in the<lb></lb>
County aforesaid, and also to hear and determine divers Felonies, Tres-<lb></lb>
passes, and other Misdeeds committed in the same County.</p>
<p n="977">PURSUANT to an Act of Parliament made and passed in the<lb></lb>
Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of their late Majesties<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65516_n977-1">King William</rs>
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and Queen Mary, his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65516_occ307">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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of the County aforesaid, now assembled at this present Session, do<lb></lb>
hereby assess and rate the Prices of Land Carriage of all Goods<lb></lb>
whatsoever, to be brought into or carried from Place to Place,<lb></lb>
within any Part of the County aforesaid, by any common<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65516_occ308">Waggoner</rs>
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or Carrier, in Manner following, that is to say:</p>
<p n="978">For every Hundred Weight of all weighable Goods, containing<lb></lb>
one Hundred and Twelve Pounds to the Hundred, the Sum of<lb></lb>
One Shilling for every Twenty Miles, and so in Proportion for<lb></lb>
any greater or lesser Number of Miles.</p>
<p n="979">For all Parcels under Fourteen Pounds Weight, the Sum of<lb></lb>
Six pence for each Parcel. And</p>
<p n="980">For all Parcels above Fourteen Pounds, and under Twenty-eight<lb></lb>
Pounds Weight, the Sum of One Shilling for each Parcel.</p>
<p n="981">And, that no such common Waggoner or Carrier shall take for<lb></lb>
the Carriage of such Goods above the Rates and Prices aforesaid<lb></lb>
upon Pain to forfeit for every Offence the Sum of Five Pounds, to<lb></lb>
be levied by Distress and Sale of his and their Goods, by Warrant<lb></lb>
of any two <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65516_occ309">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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, where such Waggoner or Carrier<lb></lb>
shall reside, to the Use of the Party aggrieved.</p>
<p n="982">And this Court doth Order, that the said Rates and Assessments<lb></lb>
shall be certified to the several Mayors and other chief Officers of<lb></lb>
each Market-Town in the said County, to be hung up in some<lb></lb>
public Place, in every such Market-Town, to which all Persons<lb></lb>
may resort for Information.</p>
<p n="983">PETER GAUNTLETT.</p>
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