Middlesex Sessions:
General Orders of the Court
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February 1774 - December 1783

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It is ordered that advertisements be inserted in the public papers purpos [..]
that such persons as mean to become Candidates for the Office of Surveyor or
Supervisor under the Act of Parliament lately passed for the further and bett [..]
regulation of Buildings and for the more effectually preventing Mischiefs
by Fire within the parishes Precincts and places within the weekly Bill
of Mortality being in the County of Middlesex and within the jurisdiction
of this Court and the parishes of Saint Mary le bon Paddington Saint
Pancras and Saint Luke at Chelsea may deliver their Petitions and
testimonials of their Qualifications sealed up to the Clerk of the Peace
of this County at his Office in Breams Buildings Chancery Lane any
time before Thursday next the 14th Instant and till the hour of ten
in the forenoon of the same day and that the substance of the order
of this Day (vizt) that no person shall be capable of being elected or
continued a Surveyor by this Court for any district under the Act for
regulating Buildings Etc passed last Session of Parliament who shall
be a Surveyor for any other district within this or any other Jurisdiction
within the purview of said Act (the Liberty of the Tower only except
be made part of the said Advertisement by way of Not a Bene

It is ordered that the consideration of the Report now tendered from the
Committee appointed to examine into the Toll of the Haymarket and
every thing relative there to be and the same is hereby adjourned to the
County day of the next Session

It is ordered that the consideration of the prayer of the Petition of
Stephen Weaver< no role > Collector of the Tolls of the Haymarket be and the same
is hereby postponed to the County Day of next Session

The Clerk of the Peace having laid before this Court the following Letter
from Boulton Mainwaring< no role > Esqr

Sir
I received your Letter of the 17th May wch I shod have acknowledged
sooner; but, I intended to have been at Hicks's Hall my self the next
Sessions after I received it; being prevented from attending I must desir [..]
you to inform the Sessions, I can't help still insisting on my Demand
I am at a loss for a reason why the Gentlemen suppose I was to have
nothing for my Care and trouble in attending the several Works for




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