February 1782.

to whom an application for such addition ought to be made
being laid before the Court and read read as follows Vizt.

Middlesex

To his Majestys Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex
in their General Session of the Peace held for the said County in
the Month of February 1782 assembled

The Report of the Committee appointed [..]
Consider how the Number of the Justices who
may receive Wages for attending the Sessions of
the Peace for this County came to be limitted to
Twenty four whether any and what addition
ought to be demanded and to whom an
application for such addition ought to be made

The said Committee Report

That having taken into Consideration the order of
Reference to this Committee Vizt. To consider how the number of Justices
"who may receive Wages for attending the Sessions of the Peace of this County
"came to be limitted to Twenty four and whether any and what Addition
"ought to be demanded and to whom an Application for such addition
"ought to be made" and having read an Act of Parliament of the Twelfth
of Richard the 2d. by which it appears that the Justices of Peace shall
take for their Wages Four shillings a day for the time of their Session and
their Clerk Two Shillings of the Frances and Amerciaments rising and
coming of the same Sessions by the Hands of the Sheriffs and that
Lords of Frachises should be contributary to the said Wages after their
part of the said Fines and Amerciaments aforesaid" and it appearing
that the Fines and Amerciaments set and imposed each Session of the
Peace for this County do not annually upon an Average amount to ma [..]
Four Pounds that the allowance to Twenty four Justices is paid to the
House Keeper by the Sheriff of this County who thereto provides a
Dinner each Day of the Session for as many Justices as attend as
also for the Clerk of the Peace and also a pint of Wine for each and that
the Sheriff is reimbursed the allowance he or makes (under an Order [..]