June 1799.

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 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 General Quarter Sessions or the greater part of them then
and there Assembled were Authorized and Empowered from
time to time to make one General Rate or assessment for
such sum or sums of Money as the Justices in their
discretion should think sufficient to Answer all and
every the ends and purposes mentioned in the said Act
and also by virtue of a certain other Act of Parliament
made and passed in the Thirty Seventh Year of the Reign
of his present Majesty King George the Third intitled "An
"Act for empowering the Justices of the peace for the County
"of Middlesex in their General or Quarter Sessions of the
"peace to make a Fair and Equal County Rate for the
"said County", the Justices of the peace for the said County
of Middlesex in their General or Quarter Sessions assembled
were empowered Authorized and required from time to
time to Assess and Tax all and every Parish Town
Liberty Precinct Village Hamlet and place within the
said County rateably in equal proportions according
to the Annual Rent or Value of Estates within such
Parish Town Liberty Precinct Village Hamlet and
Place respectively. And in Order the better to enable
the said Justices of the peace for the said County of
Middlesex to Assess and Tax rateably and in equal
proportions all and every such Parishes Towns Liberties
Precincts Village Hamlets and Places the Churchwardens
and Overseers of the poor of the said several Parishes
Towns Liberties Precincts Villages Hamlets and Places
were by the said Act required to make a Return in Writing
upon Oath to the said Justices in Session assembled of the
Total Amount of the Rental or Value of the Estates within
the Parish Town Liberty Precinct Village Hamlet or
Place to which they should respectively belong Now
forasmuch as it appeareth unto this Court that