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<p n="1011"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> TOWN and COUNTY of<lb></lb>
the Town of <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65516_geo624">Newcastle</rs>
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upon Tyne.}</note>
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At the General QUARTER SESSIONS of the PEACE our <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65516_n1011-1">Sovereign Lord</rs>
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the King, held in<lb></lb>
and for the said Town and County, at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65516_geo625">Guild hall</rs>
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of the said Town, on Wednesday the <lb></lb>
Third <del>twenty second</del>
Day of April, in the Thirty <del>Twenty ninth</del>
for of the Reign of our <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65516_n1011-2">Sovereign Lord</rs>
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<lb></lb>
GEORGE the Third of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith,<lb></lb>
and so forth, before the Right Worshipful John<obscured></obscured>
Esquire, Mayor, the Worshipful <lb></lb>
Robert Hopper Williamson <del> <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65516_n1011-3">Christopher Fawcet</rs>
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,</del>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65516_occ335">Esquire</rs>
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, Recorder, John Eras Blackett, <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65516_n1011-4">Anthony Hood</rs>
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& Robt Shaft Hedely<del> and Hu<obscured></obscured>
Hornby,</del>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65516_occ336">Esquire</rs>
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, and others their<lb></lb>
associates, Justices of our said Lord the King, assesed to keep the Peace of our said Lord<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
King, in the said Town and County, Etc.</p>
<p n="1012">THE said Justices, by Virtue of an Act of Parliament, intitled, An Act for the<lb></lb>
better Repairing and Amending the Highway and for the Settling the Rates for<lb></lb>
Carriage of Goods, do assess and rate the Prices of the Land-carriage of all Goods<lb></lb>
Whatsoever, (except Gold and Silver Plate, Jewels and money) which shall from and<lb></lb>
after the said Third <del>Twenty-second</del>
Day of April Instant until the first General Quarter<lb></lb>
Sessions of the Peace, to be holden in and for the said Town and County after<lb></lb>
Easter Day now next ensuing, be brought by any Common Waggoner or Carrier,<lb></lb>
into this Town and County, from the Places hereafter mentioned respectively, at the<lb></lb>
respective Rates and Prices following, viz.</p>
<p n="1013">From the <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65516_geo626">City of London</rs>
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, or Suburbs thereof for every Parcel or Packet not<lb></lb>
exceeding six Pounds Weight, One Shilling. For every Parcel or Packet above six<lb></lb>
Pounds Weight, and not exceeding twenty-one Pounds Weight, Two Pence per Pound.<lb></lb>
For every Parcel or Packet exceeding twenty-one Pounds Weight, at and after the<lb></lb>
Rate of Fourteen Shillings per Hundred Weight.</p>
<p n="1014">From the Town of <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65516_geo627">Doncaster</rs>
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, in the County<obscured></obscured>
, at and according to the Rate<lb></lb>
of<obscured></obscured>
pence for every Stone Weight.</p>
<p n="1015"> <obscured></obscured>
n the <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65516_geo628">City of York</rs>
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, at and according to<obscured></obscured>
Rate of Seven-pence for every<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
Weight.</p>
<p n="1016">From the Town of Pontefract, in the County<obscured></obscured>
York, at and according to the<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
</p>
<p n="1017">From the Town of Leeds, in the County of<obscured></obscured>
and according to the Rate<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
for every Stone Weight.</p>
<p n="1018">From the Town of Ripon, in the County of York and according to the Rate of<lb></lb>
Five-pence for every Stone Weight.</p>
<p n="1019">From the Town of Hexham, in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65516_geo629">County of Northumberland</rs>
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, at and according<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
Rate of Two pence <del>Three Half-pence Farthing</del>
for every Stone Weight.</p>
<p n="1020">From the City of <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65516_geo630">Carlisle</rs>
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, in the County of<obscured></obscured>
land, at and according to the<lb></lb>
R<obscured></obscured>
of Four-pence for every Stone Weight.</p>
<p n="1021">From the City of Edinburgh, in that Part of Great Britain, called <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65516_geo631">Scotland</rs>
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, or the<lb></lb>
S<obscured></obscured>
erbs thereof, at and according to the Rate of Nine-pence for every Stone Weight.</p>
<p n="1022"> <obscured></obscured>
The above Weights are all Avoirdupois; Fourteen Pounds to a Stone, and eight Stone<lb></lb>
to Hundred Weight.</p>
<p n="1023">And it is ordered by this Court, That these Rates<obscured></obscured>
Printed and immediately certified<lb></lb>
by the <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65516_occ337">Clerk of the Peace</rs>
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for this Town and County to the <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65516_n1023-1">Lord Mayor</rs>
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of the City<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65516_geo632">London</rs>
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, and to the respective <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65516_occ338">Clerks of the Peace</rs>
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for the Counties of <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65516_geo633">Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
a<obscured></obscured>
Surry, and the <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65516_geo634">City and Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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, the Mayor of the Town of<lb></lb>
Doncaster, the <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65516_n1023-2">Lord Mayor</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65516_geo635">City of york</rs>
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, the Mayor of Pontefract, the<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
of the Town of Leeds, the Mayor of the Town of Ripon, the Mayor of<lb></lb>
the City of <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65516_geo636">Carlisle</rs>
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, the Bailiff of the Manor of Hexham, and the Lord Provost of<lb></lb>
the City of Edinburgh, to be by them respective<obscured></obscured>
hung up in proper public Places,<lb></lb>
to which all Persons may resort for Information. And to the End, That no Common<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65516_occ339">Waggoner</rs>
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or Carrier may be ignorant of the<obscured></obscured>
They may hereby take Notice, That<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
of them shall take for Carriage of Goods and <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65516_occ340">Merchandize</rs>
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above the Rates<lb></lb>
an Prices hereby set, upon Pain to forfeit, for<obscured></obscured>
such Offence, the Sum of Five<lb></lb>
Pounds, to the levied by Distress and Sale of<obscured></obscured>
and their Goods, by Warrant of<lb></lb>
a<obscured></obscured>
two <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65516_occ341">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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where such Waggoner and Carrier shall reside, in<lb></lb>
M<obscured></obscured>
ner as by the said Act is appointed, to the<obscured></obscured>
of the Party grieved.</p>
<p n="1024">By the Court,</p>
<p n="1025">CLAYTON,<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65516_occ342">Clerk of the Peace</rs>
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for the said Town and County.</p>
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