January 1797.

Officers being so backward in the Payment of their respective
Quota's of the County Rate

It is Ordered That the High Constable do forthwith
inforce the Law by applying to two Magistrates for Warrants
of Distress against the Parish Officers so neglecting and that this
Court will proceed against the High Constables for their default
according to Law

Ordered That Robert Jones< no role > Gent , High Constable
for Westminster Division William Wright< no role > Gent , High Constable
for the Tower Division and Samuel Bridgeman< no role > Gent
High Constable of Finsbury Division do attend the Court here
on Monday next with a state of their respective Accounts.

By adjournment same Day.

A Representation having been made to the Court
that a Burglary had lately been committed in the House of the
Revd. Mr.. Evan's the Chaplain to the House of Correction in
this County and that he had been robbed of almost the whole of
the Property in his house and was greatly distressed in consequence
of it

Ordered That the County Treasurer do pay the sum of
£25. to Mr.. Evans in Advance on Account of his Salary.

By adjournment same day.

A Mistake a County Rate
was not made on this Sess.

Whereas by virtue of an Act of Parliament made in the
Twelfth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second
entitled "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 mention'd
in the said Act. Now Forasmuch as it appeareth unto this