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<p n="70"> <rs type="date" id="LMSMGO55607_date6">July Session 1774</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="71">At this Court the Act of Parliament intituted An Act for the further and<lb></lb>
"better regulation of Buildings and Party Walls; and for the more effectual<lb></lb>
"preventing Mischiefs by Fire within the Cities of London and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo38">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
"and the Liberties thereof, and other the Parishes Precincts and Places within<lb></lb>
"the weekly Bills of Mortality the Parishes of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo39">Saint Mary le bon</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo40">Paddington</rs>
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"<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo41">Saint Pancras</rs>
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and Saint Luke at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo42">Chelsea</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo43">County of Middlesex</rs>
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"and for indemnifying under certain conditions Builders and other persons<lb></lb>
"against the penalties to which they are or may be liable for erecting Buildings<lb></lb>
"within the Limits aforesaid contrary to Law" being read and the Court<lb></lb>
proceeding to the consideration of that part of the said Act which required his<lb></lb>
Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ26">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for this County in their General Quarter<lb></lb>
Session to nominate and appoint such and so many discreet persons skilled<lb></lb>
in the art of Building as the said Justices shall think fit to be during their<lb></lb>
will and pleasure the Surveyors or Supervisors to see the Rules and<lb></lb>
regulations contained in the said Act well and truely observed in and<lb></lb>
throughout the several parishes precincts and places aforesaid and to appoint<lb></lb>
the several districts which shall be under the respective Survey of such<lb></lb>
Surveyors or Supervisors</p>
<p n="72">It is ordered that it be referred to Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n72-1">John Hawkins</rs>
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Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n72-2">Charles White</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n72-3">William Franks</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n72-4">John Barnfather</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n72-5">Gerrard Howard</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n72-6">Samuel Wegg</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n72-7">John Brettell</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n72-7" type="surname" value="Brettell"></interp>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n72-8">James Clitherow</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n72-8" type="given" value="James"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n72-8" type="surname" value="Clitherow"></interp>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n72-9">Jeremiah Bentham</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n72-9" type="surname" value="Bentham"></interp>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n72-10">Joseph Keeling</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n72-10" type="given" value="Joseph"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n72-10" type="surname" value="Keeling"></interp>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n72-11">Thomas Bishop</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n72-12">Edmund Byron</rs>
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and any other Gentlemen in the Commission<lb></lb>
of the Peace for this County or any five of them as a Committee to consider<lb></lb>
into howmany districts that part of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo44">County of Middlesex</rs>
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mentioned in<lb></lb>
the Act of Parliament for regulating Buildings Etc shall be divided and<lb></lb>
report their opinion thereon to this Court It is also ordered that s<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Petitions as have already been together with such others as may<obscured></obscured>
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to the Clerk of the Peace by the several Candidates for the Office of Surveyor<lb></lb>
under the said Act be sealed up and laid before the said Committee</p>
<p n="73">It is ordered that there be but one Surveyor appointed to each district<lb></lb>
It is ordered that no person be capable of being Elected or continued a Surveyor<lb></lb>
by this Court for any district under the Act for the Regulating Buildings<lb></lb>
passed last Session of Parliament who shall be a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ27">Surveyor</rs>
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for any other<lb></lb>
district within this or any other Jurisdiction within the purview of the said Act<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo45">Liberty of the Tower</rs>
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only excepted</p>
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