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<p n="244"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Report of the Comittee<lb></lb>
concerning Trophy money}</note>
To his Maties Justices of the peace<lb></lb>
for the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO40001_geo220">Middx</rs>
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in General<lb></lb>
Quarter Sessions assembled.</p>
<p n="245"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">1st Nov:1722</note>
The Report of the Committee in the annexed Order of<lb></lb>
Sessions named.</p>
<p n="246"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">This Report is<lb></lb>
vacated by a<lb></lb>
subsequent<lb></lb>
Order made on<lb></lb>
the 26th. of April<lb></lb>
1723</note>
Your Committee humbly represent that they did meet on<lb></lb>
the day in the said Order mentioned and severall times since<lb></lb>
in order to have perfected their enquiry with all imaginable<lb></lb>
expeditiors untill by reason of the indisposition of one of their<lb></lb>
number who by his constant attendance had rendred himself<lb></lb>
most capable of informing the Court of their proceedings they<lb></lb>
found it necessary to adjourn their meetings till he should be<lb></lb>
able to attend them again. But in regard by an Act made in<lb></lb>
the twelfth year of the Reign of Queen Ann and other precedent<lb></lb>
Acts No trophy money can be raised untill the Accounts of the last<lb></lb>
Year have been examined and rectified and it may be necessary<lb></lb>
to raise more to enable the Militia to March in case there should<lb></lb>
be occasion for their so doing in this time of danger Your<lb></lb>
Committee (who have the security of his Matie and his<lb></lb>
Government (most sincerely at heart) thought it became them<lb></lb>
to lay before you what has occurr'd to them (imperfect as it is)<lb></lb>
rather than by any delay of theirs to give on their part any the<lb></lb>
least occasion of complaint.</p>
<p n="247">As to the first part of their instructions to enquire what Sums<lb></lb>
have been raised Your Committee beg leave to observe that it<lb></lb>
appears to them that the Sum to be raised by Law upon the whole<lb></lb>
County in one year is £308:15:2: That his Board of <lb></lb>
Lieutenancy do as they see convenient issue their warrants to<lb></lb>
certain persons in each parish to assess upon the inhabitants in<lb></lb>
their severall parishes at their ratable proportion of the said Sum<lb></lb>
according to the annext rate Two Books of which assessment<lb></lb>
fairly written exactly cast up and signed by the said assessors<lb></lb>
together with the names of two or more fit persons to be<lb></lb>
Collectors thereof they are to bring unto them at their Board.<lb></lb>
That upon receipt of these warrants the said assessors do<lb></lb>
arbitrarily assess great Sums of money (in some parishes more<lb></lb>
than double what the warrants do require) and do carry back two<lb></lb>
books of such their unwarrantable Assessments to the Board of <lb></lb>
Lieutenancy not cast up the better to deceive to one of which Book</p>
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