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<p n="4612">and that he subjoin the Amount of the poor Rates<lb></lb>
for the two preceding Years ending at Michaelmas<lb></lb>
last whereupon the Vestry Clerk wrote the following<lb></lb>
Letter to Mr. Alderman Shaw which was approved<lb></lb>
and ordered to be fair copied and delivered to him<lb></lb>
forthwith by the Beadle vizt.</p>
<p n="4613">Sir<lb></lb>
The Answers to the Questions sent to me by<lb></lb>
Order of the Committee of the <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAMV11402_geo1620">House of Commons</rs>
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<lb></lb>
appointed to consider of the present high Price of<lb></lb>
Provisions were</p>
<p n="4614">That that part of the Parish of Saint Botolph<lb></lb>
without Aldgate which lies in the <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAMV11402_geo1621">City of London</rs>
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raises<lb></lb>
the necessary Monies for the relief of its poor and<lb></lb>
maintains and employs them and acts in every other<lb></lb>
Matter respecting them entirely independent of and<lb></lb>
as distinct from that part of the said Parish which<lb></lb>
lies in the <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAMV11402_geo1622">County of Middlesex</rs>
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as if they were seperate<lb></lb>
Parishes - That the Poor Rates in the said London part<lb></lb>
of the said Parish are discretionary being assessed on<lb></lb>
the several Persons rated according to their abilities<lb></lb>
to pay as near a can be ascertained by the Vestry<lb></lb>
regard being had at the same time to the Extant and<lb></lb>
Situation of the Premises in their respective occupations<lb></lb>
That the said Rates have of late very much<lb></lb>
increased and are still rapidly increasing - That<lb></lb>
for the half year ending the 10th. October last they<lb></lb>
amounted to £2865-19-5 That they are not<lb></lb>
made at any particular Sum in the pound but upon<lb></lb>
a Calculation appear on an Average to amount<lb></lb>
to about 6s/3d.</p>
<p n="4615"> <rs type="persName" id="GLBAMV11402_n4615-1">George Street</rs>
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<lb></lb>
9th. Decr. 1800</p>
<p n="4616">I am Sir Yr. very hble Serv<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="GLBAMV11402_n4616-1">Jas. Fisher</rs>
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</p>
<p n="4617">Mr. Alderman Shaw</p>
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