February 1793

By Adjournment same day.

Whereas by virtue of an Act of Parliament made and passed
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 purpose's mentioned in the said
Act Now Forasmuch as it appeareth unto this Court that more
than Three fourths of the Money of the last Rate made in July
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 assessed upon every Town Parish and Peace 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 Peace hereinafter mentioned in the respective
Hundreds and Divisions in the said County of Middlesex and
within the Jurisdiction and Authority of the Court according to the
proportions they have been actually assessed towards raising of
Money for the passing and relieving of Vagrants the respective
Sums following that is to say.