To the Worshipful his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County
of Middlesex in their quarter Session assembled

The humble Petition of John March< no role >
David and George

Sheweth

That your Petitioner is Surveyor of the
Highways within the Parish of Acton in the County of
Middlesex for the present Year and have used them
his best Endeavours for the repairing and Amending
the said ways

That the greatest part of the Statute work
has been done and the Composition Money duly laid
out in the said repairs but that the whole labour and
Composition sell very short of the necessary means of
Compleating the said Business So that your Petitioners
hath necessarily expended about one Hundred & Seventy Pounds
herein and in Compounding with the Turnpike Trust
and is Still in disburse about the Sum of thirty one Pounds
and that there is the Sum of one Hundred Pounds now
due for Gravel and other Materials and that the said Highways
the Duly came be compleated without a Rate of Six pence in
the Pound

That there being some labour to be
Performed your Petitioner will be necessarily put to
some further expences in digging gravel and other things
to be perate the Strusting of the said Repairs

That a Rate of Six pence in the pound on the
Occupiers or Inhabitants within the said Parish will
Amount to about Eighty pounds and upwards

Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays an
Order of this Honourable Court for the making of
a Rate of Sixpence in the pound in such Manner
as shall seem meet According to the form of the
Statute in such Case lately provided

And your Petitioners shall ever pray etc.
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