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Seventh Day of May 1762. in the second year of the Reign
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of our sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God
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said sovereign Lord the King Assigned to keep his
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Majesty's Peace in the County aforesaid and also
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to have and determine divers Felonies Trespasses and
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other Misdemeanours committed in the same County.
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Upon reading the petition of
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Samuel Wegg
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in this County setting forth that the said Highways are so
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much out of repair that tho' the Inhabitants of the said parish
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have already done the greatest part of their Duty thereupon yet so
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much thereof still remains to be Amended as can't be compleated
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without the Assitance of a Rate and that the said Inhabitants being
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fully satisfied there of have desired the petitioners to apply to this
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Court for a rate of three pence in the pound on the several Owners
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and Occupiers of Houses Lands Etc for that purpose as by a true
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appeared and therefore praying by the said petition that an Order
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may be granted for the said Inhabitants or such of them as are ususally
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present at the making of Rates or Taxes within the same parish
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to meet together and make such rate or assessment as abovementioned
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pursuant to the Statute in that behalf. This Court being fully
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satisfied of the Truth of the premisses & that the Highways of the St.
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cannot otherwise be sufficiently repaired and that it is necessary that such
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that the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor and such other
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Inhabitants as are usually present at the making of Rates for
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and every the Inhabitants Owners and Occupiers of Lands Houses
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Tenements and Hereditaments or any personal Estate usually rateble to the poor within the said parish according
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to a Pound Rate not exceeding Three pence in the pound of the
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Yearly value of the said Lands Houses Tenements and Hereditaments or such personal Estate as aforesaid
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