Middlesex Sessions:
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10th June 1713 - 17th October 1721

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Report of the Proceedings of the said Trustees and to have laid
before you a true State of the Turnpike with regard to its
Income and Outgoings and to the Debts due & owing on the
Accot: of the said Turnpike But in Justification of ourselves
find that we are obliged to lay before you the severall
Mess ages that we have sent to the said Trustees together
with their Proceedings thereon which are Setforth in a
Paper annexed to this Report (markt A) That thereby may
be Seen what Treatment the Comittee have met with
from the Trustees

To which paper yor. Comittee add this observacon that by the
Order of the Trustees made the Ninth day of December last
It is Ordered that Accots. & Extracts be made Pursuant to our
last Message and to be laid before as but no time if directed
when they shall be laid before as. but the Trustees did think
fit to adjourn themselves for Five Weeks (which if what they
Scarcely ever did before to adjourn for so long a time) for no
other reason (as we apprehend) but to Put it out of our
Power to apply to them by another Message and to Prevent
(as much as they could) our being able to make any Report
at this Sessions

The Comittee have inspected the Book of Orders made by
the said Trustees from the first day of their Meeting to this
time and we cannot but think that the said Trustees have not
Proceeded with a due Regard to the Publick Interest nor as
becoming Men entrusted with so great an Income, but have
rather Shown themselves Partial to one another and have
demonstrated such their Partiality by the many contradictory
Orders by them made and without any just reason (as we
can apprehend

The Comittee think it Proper to lay before you the three Papers
annext to this Report thereby the better and more fully to expose
the Proceedings of the said Trustees and to shew the reason
we have to censure such their Actions.

The first contains some of the Contradiccons taken from their Books of Orders
The Second is a Report of a Commee of the Trustees appointed to Inspect
the Accots. of the Severall Turnpikes of Islington Etc. and Reported
to the Trustees 28th. of Janry. 1717

The third is a Report of a Commee appointed to Examine Mr. Edwards
their late Treasurers accots. & reported to the Trustees 8th. of July 1718.

As to the first Paper we conceive it Speaks fully for its self nor
need we say were to it than this That there do's not appear in
their Books of Orders any one Reason given for such
Contradicon, but on the Contrary the Reason (as we apprehend)




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