Middlesex

At a General Meeting of the Commissioners
for putting in Execution an Act of Parliament passed in the Eighteenth
Year of the Reign or His Majesty King George the Third entitled
An Act for authorising the Justices of the Peace for the County of
Middlesex to sell the Present Session House for the said County and
for enabling them to build another Session House in a more convenient
situation and to Keep the same in Repair & holden at the Session House
for the said County by adjournment on Wednesday the 7th Day of January
1784

Present

William Mainwaring< no role > Esquire in the Chair
The Reverend Sir George Booth< no role > Baronet
Thomas Collins< no role > Esquire
George Mercer< no role > Esquire
Joseph Hackney< no role > Esquire
Jacob Leroux< no role > Esquire
Charles Sheppard< no role > Esquire

The Orders and Proceedings of the last Meeting which stood for
Confirmation were now read Ordered that the same be and they are
hereby Confirmed

Mr. Leroux and Mr. Collins who at the last
Meeting obligingly undertook to Extract the Charges contained in the
Several Bills and Demands for work performed in the Erection of the
New Session House for this County over and above the Work specified
to be done in the Contracts with the several persons employed to make
the said building more Commodious which do not fall within the
presence of the Commissioners to defray laid before this Meeting an
Extract of which the following is a Copy

(here take in Mr. Leroux 's paper)

And severalotherpayments not immediately withinthe object
of the Commr. being Extracted from the Treasurers Account to the
amount of £454..19..4

And it appearing that there are unsatisfied demands which have been
principally incurred by additions to the original plan of the building and other surprise Matters
for the better Accommodation of the Building to the [..]