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To the Alderman of the Ward of
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or his Deputy}
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By the Mayor
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These are to require you to cause a Wardmote to be Summoned
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and held in some convenient place within your said Ward, on such day
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and Hour as to you shall seem meet; and that you cause the several
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Constables within your said Ward to be then and there present; and
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that you also cause the Order of Session, hereunto annexed, to be openly
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and publickly read at the said Wardmote, and to be delivered to the
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proper Constable or Constables of your said Ward, for his or their due
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and immediate Execution of the said Order: And these are further
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to require you to cause such assistance to be given to the said Order
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shall be intrusted, in taxing and assessing the Inhabitants and
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Dwellers within your said Ward; and levying and Collecting the
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Monies by virtue of the said Order to be Collected within your said
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Ward as to you and the Inhabitants of your said Ward in your
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said
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assembled shall seem most effectual for the speedy
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levying and Collecting such Monies and securing the same
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until the same shall be paid into the Chamber of London pursuant
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to the said annexed Order so that the same shall be levied-
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Collected and paid in within the times respectively fixed for those
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purposes by the same Dated the Seventh day November 1781.
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Rix
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N.B By That 27 Eliz. cap 13. & 5 It is Enacted That if any an
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"Inhabitant of any Parish shall obstinately refuse and deny to
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"pay the said Taxation and assessment so by the Constables or
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"Constable taxed and assessed that then it shall and may be
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"lawful to and for the said Constables, within their limits and
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"Jurisdictions, to distrain all and every Person and persons
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"so refusing and denying by his and their Goods and Chattels;
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"and the same distress to sell and the Money thereof coming to
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"retain to the use aforesaid, and if the Goods of Chattels so distrained
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"and sold shall be of more value than the said Taxation shall
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"come unto that then the residue of the said Money over and above
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"the said Taxation shall be delivered unto the said Person or
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"Persons so distrained"
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