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Petition of the Justices of
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the peace of Middx To the
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. House of Comons
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concerning the raiseing
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of Bridge money Etc}
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To the Honourable the Commons of Great
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Britain in Parliament assembled.
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The humble Petition of his Majesties
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Justices of the Peace
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for the County of
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in their General Quarter
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Session assembled.
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Sheweth
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That the Execution of the Laws for Repair of County
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Bridges passing of Vagrants, and Repairing of Gaols being
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comitted to the Care and direction of the
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Justices of the peace
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in the Several Counties of England, your Petitioners have
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used their best Endeavours to make them Effectual in
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this County.
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And in Order thereunto have caused Several Rates to
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be made for the purposes aforesaid, which Rates have
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been made in the usual Form practiced for many years
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last past in this and other Counties.
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That Several of these
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the
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Rates have been removed by
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Writs of Cerciorari, and Some-of them Quashed, and
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Actions have been brought against the Officers for
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Collecting one of the Said Rates while Such Rate was in
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force, And tho' one of these Rates (to wit the Rate for Repairing
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Brentford Bridge
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) removed by Cerciorari hath been
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confirmed, yet it was about two years after it had been So
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removed, by reason whereof the Execution of the Said Rate
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was all that time Suspended, and during the Said time
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many persons liable to the payment of the Said Rate
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died, and many others removed from their Habitations so
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that Several parts of the Money to be raised by the Said Rate
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are
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likely to be lost, By which and the Moneys necessarily expended
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in the defence of the Said Rate (which Amount to about one
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third part of the Money to be raised thereby) The Same will be
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greatly deficient to answer the purpose intended, And in the
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mean time the Said Bridge is fallen So much into decay and
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is in So ruinous a Condition that the Expences will be very
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