To the Right Honourable Sir Watkin Lewes< no role > Knt . Lord
Mayor of the City of London and to the Rest of His
Majesty's Justices of the peace for the said City in General
Quarter Session of the peace assembled.

Sheweth.

The humble Petition and Appeal of William Slator< no role >

That your Petitioner is Apothecary to a certain Charitable Institution called
or known by the name of The General Dispensary for the Relief of the Poor
under the Management of several Persons who by Voluntary Subscriptions have
supported the said Charitable Institution from the Year 1770 to this time whereby
many then sands of poor persons have been Relieved with Physical advice
and Medicines in the several Disorders with which they were afflicted

That Your Petitioner as such Apothecary resides in part of a certain
Building lately erected by Public Voluntary Subscriptions in the Stead of
an Antient Building therefore made Use of for the London Lying In Hospital
and which present Building is now made use of by the Subscribers to the said
Charitable Institution for the Purpose only of carrying their benevolent
Intentions for the Relief of the poor into Execution.

That by a certain Rate or Assessment made on or about the third day
of April 1781 for the Relief of the poor of the said Parish of Saint Botolph
without Aldersgate Your Petitioner hath been charged in the Sum of Three
Pounds towards the Relief of the poor of the said Parish for or in Respect of
the said Building.

That Your Petitioner Apprehends that as he is only Apothecary to the
said Charitable Institution he ought to be Charged in any Sum of
Money Whatsoever for or in Respect of the said Building towards the Relief