July Session 1774 .

At this Court the Act of Parliament intituted An Act for the further and
"better regulation of Buildings and Party Walls; and for the more effectual
"preventing Mischiefs by Fire within the Cities of London and Westminster ,
"and the Liberties thereof, and other the Parishes Precincts and Places within
"the weekly Bills of Mortality the Parishes of Saint Mary le bon Paddington
"Saint Pancras and Saint Luke at Chelsea in the County of Middlesex
"and for indemnifying under certain conditions Builders and other persons
"against the penalties to which they are or may be liable for erecting Buildings
"within the Limits aforesaid contrary to Law" being read and the Court
proceeding to the consideration of that part of the said Act which required his
Majesty's Justices of the peace for this County in their General Quarter
Session to nominate and appoint such and so many discreet persons skilled
in the art of Building as the said Justices shall think fit to be during their
will and pleasure the Surveyors or Supervisors to see the Rules and
regulations contained in the said Act well and truely observed in and
throughout the several parishes precincts and places aforesaid and to appoint
the several districts which shall be under the respective Survey of such
Surveyors or Supervisors

It is ordered that it be referred to Sir John Hawkins< no role > Sir Charles White< no role >
William Franks< no role > John Barnfather< no role > Gerrard Howard< no role > Samuel Wegg< no role >
John Brettell< no role > James Clitherow< no role > Jeremiah Bentham< no role > Joseph Keeling< no role >
Thomas Bishop< no role > Edmund Byron< no role > and any other Gentlemen in the Commission
of the Peace for this County or any five of them as a Committee to consider
into howmany districts that part of the County of Middlesex mentioned in
the Act of Parliament for regulating Buildings Etc shall be divided and
report their opinion thereon to this Court It is also ordered that s [..]
Petitions as have already been together with such others as may [..]
to the Clerk of the Peace by the several Candidates for the Office of Surveyor
under the said Act be sealed up and laid before the said Committee

It is ordered that there be but one Surveyor appointed to each district
It is ordered that no person be capable of being Elected or continued a Surveyor
by this Court for any district under the Act for the Regulating Buildings
passed last Session of Parliament who shall be a Surveyor for any other
district within this or any other Jurisdiction within the purview of the said Act
the Liberty of the Tower only excepted