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