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of any Writ or Process issued out of the same that the Chief Governor for
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the time being should have power to appoint Officers of the Court of
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Sessions should appoint where such Court house should be and likewise
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the Steward of the Court of the said Liberty to be
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Coroner of the said Liberty and that the
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Justices of the Peace
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within the
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said Liberty should have full power to commit all Traytors Felons and
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other Criminals and Offenders taken or apprehended within the said
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Liberty unto Newgate
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Resolved it appears to this Committee that Commissions of the
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peace for the said Liberty have from time to time issued under the Great
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Seal of
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and that there is now a subsisting Commission of the
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Peace for the said Liberty
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Read the Act of the 12th. Year of the Reign of his late Majesty
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King George the 2d. entitled "An Act for the more easy assessing and collecting
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County Rates whereby it appears That from and after the 1st. day of September
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1739 the
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in that part of Great Britain called
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within the respective limits of their Commissions at their General or Quarter
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Sessions or the greater part of them then and there assembled shall have full
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power and Authority, from time to time to make one General Rate or
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Assessment for such Sum or Sums of Money as they in their discretions
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shall think sufficient to answer all and every the ends and purposes of
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the several Acts of Parliament in that Case made instead and in him of
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the several seperate and district Rates directed thereby to be made levied
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and collected which Rate shall be assessed upon every Town Parish or
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place within the respective limits of their Commissions, in such
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Proportions as any of the Rates heretofore made in pursuance of the said
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several acts have been usually assessed and the several and respective
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Sums so assessed upon each and every Town Parish or Place within the
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respective Limits of their Commissions shall be collected by the
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High
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of the respective Hundreds and divisions in which any
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Town Parish or Place doth lie, in such manner and at such times as
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is hereinafter directed:
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Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid
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that this Act or any thing herein contained shall not extend or be
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construed to extend to make any Persons Liberties Divisions or
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Places liable to pay to any Rate to be made in pursuance of this Act
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to which such Person Liberty Division or Place did not or was not
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liable to contribute before the passing hereof but that it shall and may
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be lawful to and for the
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at their respective General
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or Quarter Sessions or the greater part of them then and there assembled
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to order and as certain what proportion of any Rate to be made by
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virtue of this act shall be assessed on and paid by the several persons
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