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<p n="2209">October 1782</p>
<p n="2210"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n2210-1">Edward Gray</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n2210-2">Thomas Brooksbank</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ911">Esquires</rs>
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to examine and Audit<lb></lb>
the same and when the said Committee shall have examined and audited<lb></lb>
the same they are hereby authorized to draw upon the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ912">Treasurer of this County</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for any Sum or Sums of Money in discharge of the said Demands not<lb></lb>
exceeding one half of the Amount of the said Demands and the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ913">Treasurer</rs>
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of the said County is hereby authorized and required to pay to<lb></lb>
the Order of the said Committee or Day three of them such Sums of Money<lb></lb>
as they shall draw for as aforesaid</p>
<p n="2211">By adjournment same day.</p>
<p n="2212">Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n2212-1">John Benson</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ914">Treasurer</rs>
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for this County having informed<lb></lb>
the Court that at the time of his appointment to the Office he entered into<lb></lb>
a Bond himself in the Penalty of £1000 together with <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n2212-2">James Esdaile</rs>
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Esqr.<lb></lb>
now Sir James Esdaile Knt. and Jonathan Chadwick Durden Esqr.<lb></lb>
as Sureties in the further Sum of £500. To be accountable for the several<lb></lb>
and respective Sums of Money which should be paid to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n2212-4">John<lb></lb>
Benson</rs>
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as such Treasurer that the said Jonathan Chadwick Durden<lb></lb>
Esqr. lately departed this Life and that he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n2212-5">John Benson</rs>
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was<lb></lb>
willing to give his own Bond in the penalty of £1000 for the like<lb></lb>
purposes and that Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n2212-6">James Esdaile</rs>
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would be his Surety in the Sum<lb></lb>
of £500 and Sir James Esdaile being now here and consenting.<lb></lb>
This Court doth approve thereof as a sufficient Security in this Behalf.<lb></lb>
And it is thereupon Ordered that Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n2212-8">John Benson</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n2212-8" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
do give Bond<lb></lb>
for the like purposes in manner aforesaid.</p>
<p n="2213">WM.</p>
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