the Lord Mayor for the time being be President of the said Cor-
poration, Workhouse or Workhouses, within the said City; and
the Assistants to be the Altermen of the said City for the time be-
ing, and Fifty two other Citizens to be chosen by the Common -
Council of the said City; And that the said President and Assist-
ants, or the major part of them, shall and may elect a Deputy-
President and Treasurer, and all other necessary Officers thereby
constituted to execute the Powers and Offices appointed by the
said Act;

AND whereas the Common Council of the said City did
in the year 1698, in pursuance of the said Act, erect and
Choose a Corporation for the purposes in the said Act menti-
oned, and the President and Conernours did elect a Deputy
President and Treasurer, and other Officers, Infich said Pre-
sident and Conernours have and do meet and consider of pro
per Ways and methods for improving the Poor of this City,
and have laid out divers Sums of Money heretofore raised
by four Acts of Common Council, pursuant to the said recited
Act of Parliament, in the building and altering divers Doules
and Tenements by them taken and purchased in Bishopsgate .
Street, and thereof making several connensent Workhouses, in
which they have and do employ great numbers of poor diffressen
Children , Beggars, wagrants, and otherwise and disorderin
Persons that are found in the publick Streets and Passages of
this City, in Sprining of Wool and star, Knitting of Stoc-
kings, Making of Cloaths and Shoes, Winding of Silk,
Picking of Dakum, Wathing of Linnen, Beating of Hemp,
and Basptons of Loggwood, and for whom then provide Meat,
Drink, Wathing, Lodging, Cloaths, and all other Necessa-
ries, in doing of which they have Expended the Moneys altera-
by raisen, as they have certified under their Common Seal unto
this Court, and that they do want a further Supply for carry-
ing on the said Work, and that the Sum of five thousand one
hundred and one pounds eight Shillings and six pence Will be
necessary to be caised for the same, and in further pursuance of
the said Act of Parliament: This Court hath thereupon agreed
the Sum of four thousand eight hundred eighty seven pounds
eight shillings and a farthing, Shall be raised upon the several
Parishes and Precincts within the said city and Either as
thereof, in the proportions herein after mentioned

BE it therefore Enacted by the Right Honourable the
Lord Mayor, the Right Worshipful the Aldermen, and the
Commond of the said City in Common Council assembled,
That the Sum of Four thousand eight hundred eighty seven
pounds eight shillings and a farthing shall be rated and as-
sessed, by one entite Assessment, upon the Inhabitants within

in the said City and Liberties, according to the several and
respective Proportions herein after following; That is to
say,

On the Parish of St. Alban Wood street , Twenty eight pounds
three shillings and six pence.

On Alhallows Barking , Ninety one pounds four shillings and
seven pence.

On Alhallows Bread Street , Twenty three pounds twelve shillings
and fix pence.

On Alhallows the great , Fifty six pounds seventeen shillings and
six pence.

On Alhallows Honey-lane , Thirteen pounds.

On Alhallows the less , Twenty five pounds one shilling and nine
pence.

On Alhallows Lombard street , Thirty nine pounds ten Shillings
and four pence.

On Alhallows Staining , Thirty seven pounds thirteen shillings
three pence.

On Alhallows the Wall , Forty six pounds.

On St. Andrew Hubbard , Seventeen pounds thirteen shillings
and three pence.

On St. Andrew Undershaft , Eighty one pounds three shillings
four pence half-peny.

On St. Andrew Wardrobe , Fifteen pounds.

On St. Anne Aldersgate , viz. on that part thereof which lieth
within the Freedom of the City of London , Sixteen pounds one
shilling and eight pence.

On St. Anne Blackfryars , Sixty seven pounds sixteen shillings
and nine pence.

On St. Anthony, alias Antholin , Twenty nine pounds eleven
pence half-peny.

On St. Austins Parish, Nineteen pounds six shillings and six
pence.

On St. Bartholomew exchange , Twenty nine pounds nineteen
shillings and three pence.

On St. Bennet Fink , Twenty pounds.

On St. Bennet Gracechurch , Twenty four pounds eleven Shillings
and ten pence.

On St. Bennet Pauls Wharf , Thirty six pounds seventeen shil-
lings.

On St. Bennet Sherehog , Thirteen pounds eight shillings and
eight pence.

On