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February 1782.
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to whom an application for such addition ought to be made
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being laid before the Court and read read as follows Vizt.
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To his Majestys
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Justices of the Peace
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in their General Session of the Peace held for the said County in
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the Month of February 1782 assembled
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The Report of the Committee appointed
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Consider how the Number of the Justices who
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may receive Wages for attending the Sessions of
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the Peace for this County came to be limitted to
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Twenty four whether any and what addition
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ought to be demanded and to whom an
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application for such addition ought to be made
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The said Committee Report
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That having taken into Consideration the order of
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Reference to this Committee Vizt. To consider how the number of Justices
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"ought to be made" and having read an Act of Parliament of the Twelfth
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of Richard the 2d. by which it appears that the Justices of Peace shall
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take for their Wages Four shillings a day for the time of their Session and
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their Clerk Two Shillings of the Frances and Amerciaments rising and
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coming of the same Sessions by the Hands of the Sheriffs and that
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Lords of Frachises should be contributary to the said Wages after their
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part of the said Fines and Amerciaments aforesaid" and it appearing
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that the Fines and Amerciaments set and imposed each Session of the
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Peace for this County do not annually upon an Average amount to ma
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Four Pounds that the allowance to Twenty four Justices is paid to the
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House Keeper by the Sheriff of this County who thereto provides a
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Dinner each Day of the Session for as many Justices as attend as
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also for the
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and also a pint of Wine for each and that
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the Sheriff is reimbursed the allowance he or makes (under an Order
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