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<p n="94">January 1784</p>
<p n="95">Sum of £1109..18..3 together with the £29..8..8 will fully pay and<lb></lb>
satisfy the demands of the several Tradesmen employed by the said<lb></lb>
Commissioners and Justices as aforesaid And the Commissioners<lb></lb>
apprehend this cannot be considered as an Injury to the County as it<lb></lb>
appears a larger Sum has already been paid by the Commissioners out of<lb></lb>
the Building fund which ought to have been paid out of the County Rate.</p>
<p n="96">And the said Commissioners beg leave to observe That being<lb></lb>
in possession of 110 City Bonds for £100 each which they were obliged from<lb></lb>
time to time to sell in order to satisfy the several Tradesmen employed<lb></lb>
in erecting the said Session house as their Payments became due under<lb></lb>
their Contracts the very great Loss occasioned thereby to the amount of<lb></lb>
£1802..0..9 by the great Discount on the said Bonds is the reason<lb></lb>
why the Commissioners are now under the necessity of distinguishing<lb></lb>
particularly what Payments they conceive are not strictly payable out of<lb></lb>
the fund allowed by the said Act for building the Session house Whereas<lb></lb>
if the City Bounds had been sold at par as might reasonably have<lb></lb>
been expected the said Bonds bearing 4 P Cent Interest the said<lb></lb>
Commissioners would not only have been enabled to pay the said Sum<lb></lb>
of £1139..6..11 out of the fund allowed as aforesaid but would have<lb></lb>
had a Surplus of £662.13..9 which they would have paid in case<lb></lb>
of the County Rate.</p>
<p n="97">A Motion was made that It appearing to this Court<lb></lb>
by the Representation of the Commissioners for building the New Session<lb></lb>
That several Sums to the amount of £1200 and upwards have been<lb></lb>
paid by the said Commissioners chiefly for Alterations and Accommodations<lb></lb>
made in the said Session house by the desire of His Majestys Justices of<lb></lb>
the Peace and for other matters not strictly Chargeable upon the fund<lb></lb>
given for building the said Session house and that there is now due for<lb></lb>
Work done partly by order of the said Commissioners previous to His Majestys<lb></lb>
Justices of the Peace occupying the same and partly for Alterations and<lb></lb>
Accommodations made by order of His Majestys Justices of the Peace</p>
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