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January 1784
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Sum of £1109..18..3 together with the £29..8..8 will fully pay and
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satisfy the demands of the several Tradesmen employed by the said
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Commissioners and Justices as aforesaid And the Commissioners
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apprehend this cannot be considered as an Injury to the County as it
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appears a larger Sum has already been paid by the Commissioners out of
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the Building fund which ought to have been paid out of the County Rate.
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And the said Commissioners beg leave to observe That being
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in possession of 110 City Bonds for £100 each which they were obliged from
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time to time to sell in order to satisfy the several Tradesmen employed
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in erecting the said Session house as their Payments became due under
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their Contracts the very great Loss occasioned thereby to the amount of
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£1802..0..9 by the great Discount on the said Bonds is the reason
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why the Commissioners are now under the necessity of distinguishing
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particularly what Payments they conceive are not strictly payable out of
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the fund allowed by the said Act for building the Session house Whereas
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if the City Bounds had been sold at par as might reasonably have
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been expected the said Bonds bearing 4 P Cent Interest the said
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Commissioners would not only have been enabled to pay the said Sum
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of £1139..6..11 out of the fund allowed as aforesaid but would have
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had a Surplus of £662.13..9 which they would have paid in case
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of the County Rate.
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A Motion was made that It appearing to this Court
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by the Representation of the Commissioners for building the New Session
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That several Sums to the amount of £1200 and upwards have been
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paid by the said Commissioners chiefly for Alterations and Accommodations
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made in the said Session house by the desire of His Majestys Justices of
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the Peace and for other matters not strictly Chargeable upon the fund
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given for building the said Session house and that there is now due for
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Work done partly by order of the said Commissioners previous to His Majestys
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Justices of the Peace occupying the same and partly for Alterations and
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Accommodations made by order of His Majestys Justices of the Peace
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