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To the Rt. Worpll: his Maties Justices of the
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Peace Assembled in Genll: Qur: Session's held in and
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the Year 1724
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Sheweth
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That your Petrs. are Obliged to pay tot eh Trear Chosen by
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the Trustees appointed for putting in Execucon. an Act of Parliamt: made in the
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Seventh Year of his present Maties Reigne Entitiled on act for Repairing the
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thereto the sum of Seventy pounds and Upwards which cannot be raised
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without the Aid of this Court. and that the Accounts of the Surveyors of the
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Highways for the Year last past one already passed.
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Your Peticonrs therefore most humbly pray
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this honble Court will be pleased to Grant an order
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that a Rate on Assessment not Exceeding and Peny in
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the pound may le made by the Churchwardens and
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Inhabitants of their said parish in Vestry upon Pson
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Usually Rated to the poor of their said parish and in
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like manner to Reign burse them their moneys so to be
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paid & laid out as aforesaid, according to the act of
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Parliamt: in that behalfe
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