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<p n="357">July 1784</p>
<p n="358">Parliament made and passed in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of<lb></lb>
his late Majesty King George the Second entitled "An Act<lb></lb>
for the more Easy Assessing Collecting and Levying County Rates"<lb></lb>
they were required to levy within their respective Divisions but<lb></lb>
that the said Sums of Money have not yet been paid unto them and<lb></lb>
great inconveniences arising therefrom It is Ordered that the<lb></lb>
High Constables of the respective Hundreds and Divisions within<lb></lb>
this County do forthwith on sight hereof demand in Writing of the<lb></lb>
Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor or other proper persons<lb></lb>
of the parishes and places within their respective Hundreds or<lb></lb>
Divisions such Sum and Sums of Money as has been respectively<lb></lb>
assessed upon such parish or place by virtue of the said Order of his<lb></lb>
Majestys Justices in their General Quarter Session of the peace<lb></lb>
holden in the Month of April last assembled and in case such<lb></lb>
Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor or any of them shall<lb></lb>
neglect or refuse to pay such Sum and Sums of Money so assessed<lb></lb>
as aforesaid such High Constable do levy the same according to the<lb></lb>
directions in the said Act contained</p>
<p n="359">By adjournment same day</p>
<p n="360"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Proceedings relative to<lb></lb>
the Report of ye Committee<lb></lb>
appointed to take into<lb></lb>
Considn. the Building a<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo252">New House of Correction</rs>
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for the County}</note>
The order of the day being called for vizt. "To take into further<lb></lb>
Consideration the Report from the Committee appointed in February<lb></lb>
Session last to take into Consideration the building a New House<lb></lb>
of Correction on a Scale adapted to the Ground purchased of the<lb></lb>
Quakers together with the Scite of the present House of Correction<lb></lb>
and to prepare a plan or plans for that purpose" and the<lb></lb>
Deputy Clerk of the peace having reported that in pursuance of<lb></lb>
the Orders of Court of last Session he had sent a Letter to each<lb></lb>
of His Majestys Justices of the peace acting in and for this<lb></lb>
County of which the following is a Copy.</p>
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