October 1791
during the pleasure of the Court pursuant to the said Act which being
Agreed to Resolved that the said George Meredith< no role >
is duly Elected
Surveyor
or Supervisor of the said District under the said Act of Parliament
and then the said George Meredith< no role >
was called in and acquainted with his
Election and took the Oath directed by the said Act for the true and impartial
Execution of the said Office
By Adjournment same day
Whereas by virtue of an Act of Parliament made in the Twelfth
year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second intituled "An Act
for the more easy assessing collecting and levying County Rates" the Justices of
the Peace in that part of Great Britain called England
within the respective
Limits of their commissions at their General or Quarter Sessions or the greater
part of them then and there assembled having full Power and Authority from
time to time to make one General Rate or Assessment for such Sum or Sums of
Money as the Justices in their discretion shall think sufficient to answer All
and every the ends and purposes mentioned in the said Act Now for as much
as it appeareth unto this Court that more than three fourths of the Money of the
last Rate made in April Session last being the last preceeding Rate hath been
paid and expended to answer the ends and purposes mentioned in the said Act of
Parliament and that it is necessary a considerable Sum of Money should be raised
and a Rate made upon the Towns Parishes and Places in the said County for
raising of Money to answer the several ends and purposes mentioned in the said
Act of Parliament This Court upon consideration of the Premises is of Opinion
and Doth accordingly Order that a General Rate be made and aforesaid
upon every Town Parish and Place in the said County for raising the Sum of
Four Thousand Pounds which this Court doth think necessary to be raised for
the purposes aforesaid This Court by virtue of the said Act of Parliament Doth
Assess upon every Town Parish and Place hereinafter mentioned in the respective
Hundreds and Divisions
in the said County of Middlesex
and within the