of any Writ or Process issued out of the same that the Chief Governor for
the time being should have power to appoint Officers of the Court of
Sessions should appoint where such Court house should be and likewise
a Keeper of the Prison the Steward of the Court of the said Liberty to be
Coroner of the said Liberty and that the Justices of the Peace within the
said Liberty should have full power to commit all Traytors Felons and
other Criminals and Offenders taken or apprehended within the said
Liberty unto Newgate

Resolved it appears to this Committee that Commissions of the
peace for the said Liberty have from time to time issued under the Great
Seal of England and that there is now a subsisting Commission of the
Peace for the said Liberty

Read the Act of the 12th. Year of the Reign of his late Majesty
King George the 2d. entitled "An Act for the more easy assessing and collecting
County Rates whereby it appears That from and after the 1st. day of September
1739 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 shall have full
power and Authority, from time to time to make one General Rate or
Assessment for such Sum or Sums of Money as they in their discretions
shall think sufficient to answer all and every the ends and purposes of
the several Acts of Parliament in that Case made instead and in him of
the several seperate and district Rates directed thereby to be made levied
and collected which Rate shall be assessed upon every Town Parish or
place within the respective limits of their Commissions, in such
Proportions as any of the Rates heretofore made in pursuance of the said
several acts have been usually assessed and the several and respective
Sums so assessed upon each and every Town Parish or Place within the
respective Limits of their Commissions shall be collected by the High
Constables of the respective Hundreds and divisions in which any
Town Parish or Place doth lie, in such manner and at such times as
is hereinafter directed:

Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid
that this Act or any thing herein contained shall not extend or be
construed to extend to make any Persons Liberties Divisions or
Places liable to pay to any Rate to be made in pursuance of this Act
to which such Person Liberty Division or Place did not or was not
liable to contribute before the passing hereof but that it shall and may
be lawful to and for the Justices of the Peace at their respective General
or Quarter Sessions or the greater part of them then and there assembled
to order and as certain what proportion of any Rate to be made by
virtue of this act shall be assessed on and paid by the several persons