P adjorn Jovis 28o. die Augusti 1729

Order for Justices of
Peace of Middx in
their respective
Divisions to agree
what Number of Persons
are proper to be licenced
in each Parish & Hamlet
within their respective
Divisions to Sell Brandy< no role >
or Strong Waters by
retail, And to Report
Etc.

William Cowper< no role > Esqr.
St. Wm. Ogborn< no role > Knt.

Reginald Marriot< no role >
John Ellis< no role >
Francis Sorell< no role >
Philip Willshire< no role >
Stephen Hall< no role >
Robert Tothill< no role >
Honorat Smith< no role > }Esqrs .

Whereas by an Act of Parliament made in the
second Yeare of the Reigne of his present Majesty
King George the second touching the Licensing
Retalers of Brandy and other Distilled Liquors,
and for better regulating of Licenses for common
Inns and Ale houses, It is (inter al) Enacted
That from and after the Twenty fourth day of
Inne one thousand Seven hundred and twenty
nine no Licence shall be granted to any Person
to keep a common Inn or Ale house or to retail
any Brandy or Strong Waters, but at a Generall
Meeting of the Justices of the Peace acting in the
Division where the said Person dwells to be holden
for that purpose on the First day of September
Yearly or within twenty days after or at any other
Generall Metting of the said Justices to be holden
for the Division wherein the said Person resides
And all Licences which shall after the said
twenty fourth day of June one thousand seven
hundred and twenty nine be granted to the contrary
thereof shall be Null and void, And Whereas the
Court of Generall Quarter Sessions of the Peace
holden for this County by Adjornment on Thursday
the Tenth day of July now last haveing taken into
consideration the aforesaid Clause in the said
Act of Parliament, Did by a Resolution then made
Declare that it was the Opinion of the said Court
That by the said expression, That no Licence shall
be granted to any Person to keep a Common Inn or
Ale house or to Retail any Brandy or Strong Waters
but at a Generall Metting of the Justices of the Peace
acting in the Division where the said Person dwells,
It is intended that the granting of Licences to Inn
keepers, Ale house Keepers or Retailers of Brandy
or Strong Waters, shall be at such Meetings only as