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No 4
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17th. May 1774
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Sir
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I am Ordered by the Court of Quarter Session to inform
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you that on the County day of last Session a Paper was produced by the
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Chairman purporting to be an Account of Monies laid out in several
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County works done under your Direction and a charge of five
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per Cent thereon amounting to upwards of Two Hundred Pounds
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in the said paper said to have
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which you say has
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been owing to you ever since the year 1767 and
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that the same paper was then
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taken into Consideration. When the Justices
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not being able to find by any Order or minute in the Books of the
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Court nor to recollect
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that you were ever employed by them in
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the Capacity of a Surveyor but on the contrary conceiving that
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the Services you have done the County were voluntary and in
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every sense of the word dissinterested were of Opinion not to allow
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Your Domand I am
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Sr.
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Your most obedient
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& most humble Servant
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Esqr
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at
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Norwood
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Cory sent to Mr. Man waring by the
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General Post 17th.
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