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At the General QUARTER SESSIONS of the PEACE our
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the King, held in
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Third
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twenty second
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Day of April, in the Thirty
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GEORGE the Third of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith,
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and so forth, before the Right Worshipful John
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Esquire, Mayor, the Worshipful
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Robert Hopper Williamson
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, Recorder, John Eras Blackett,
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& Robt Shaft Hedely
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and Hu
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Hornby,
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, and others their
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associates, Justices of our said Lord the King, assesed to keep the Peace of our said Lord
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King, in the said Town and County, Etc.
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THE said Justices, by Virtue of an Act of Parliament, intitled, An Act for the
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better Repairing and Amending the Highway and for the Settling the Rates for
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Carriage of Goods, do assess and rate the Prices of the Land-carriage of all Goods
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Whatsoever, (except Gold and Silver Plate, Jewels and money) which shall from and
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after the said Third
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Twenty-second
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Day of April Instant until the first General Quarter
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Sessions of the Peace, to be holden in and for the said Town and County after
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Easter Day now next ensuing, be brought by any Common Waggoner or Carrier,
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into this Town and County, from the Places hereafter mentioned respectively, at the
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respective Rates and Prices following, viz.
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, or Suburbs thereof for every Parcel or Packet not
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exceeding six Pounds Weight, One Shilling. For every Parcel or Packet above six
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Pounds Weight, and not exceeding twenty-one Pounds Weight, Two Pence per Pound.
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For every Parcel or Packet exceeding twenty-one Pounds Weight, at and after the
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Rate of Fourteen Shillings per Hundred Weight.
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From the Town of
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of
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York, at and according to the
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and according to the Rate
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for every Stone Weight.
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From the Town of Ripon, in the County of York and according to the Rate of
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Five-pence for every Stone Weight.
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Rate of Two pence
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Three Half-pence Farthing
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for every Stone Weight.
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land, at and according to the
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S
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erbs thereof, at and according to the Rate of Nine-pence for every Stone Weight.
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The above Weights are all Avoirdupois; Fourteen Pounds to a Stone, and eight Stone
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to Hundred Weight.
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And it is ordered by this Court, That these Rates
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Printed and immediately certified
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by the
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for this Town and County to the
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of
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Surry, and the
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Doncaster, the
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, the Mayor of Pontefract, the
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of the Town of Leeds, the Mayor of the Town of Ripon, the Mayor of
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the City of
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the City of Edinburgh, to be by them respective
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hung up in proper public Places,
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to which all Persons may resort for Information. And to the End, That no Common
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or Carrier may be ignorant of the
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They may hereby take Notice, That
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of them shall take for Carriage of Goods and
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Merchandize
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above the Rates
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an Prices hereby set, upon Pain to forfeit, for
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such Offence, the Sum of Five
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Pounds, to the levied by Distress and Sale of
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and their Goods, by Warrant of
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a
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two
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Justices of the Peace
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where such Waggoner and Carrier shall reside, in
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M
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ner as by the said Act is appointed, to the
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of the Party grieved.
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By the Court,
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CLAYTON,
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Clerk of the Peace
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