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Seventh Day of April in the Twenty second Year
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Grace of God King of Great Britain and so forth and in th
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in the said Town and Liberties Trespasses and other Mis
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in the said Town and Liberties done and committed and
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By Virtue of the Act of Parliament made in the third and fourth
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Year of the Reign of the late Sovereign Lord and Lady King William
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and Queen Mary Intituled An Act for the better repairing and damending
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the Highways and far settling the Rates of Carriage of Goods, his
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Majesty's Justices of the Peace Assembled at this Sessions in
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Pursuance of the Power given them by the said Act have asses
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and
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rated the Price of all Land Carriage of Goods whatsoever to be brought
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into this Town by any common Waggoner or Carrier at the Rates or
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Prices following (to wit) the Carriage of every one Hundred Weight of
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Goods (except money Place or Jewells) That shall be carried from
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to this Town not to exceed the Rate of Six Shillings and Six
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Peace and so in Proportion far a greater or lesser Quantity above
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twelve Pounds Weight And under twenty Pounds Weight one Shilling
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and no more And it is Ordered by this Court That there Rates be sent
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to the several Common Waggoners or Carriers carrying Goods from
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to this Town and also be hung up in some Publick Place w
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this Town to which all Persons may resart far their Informa
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And that the common Waggoners and Carriers may not be ig
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of the Law They are to take notice That none of them are to tak
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the Carriage of such Goods and
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above the Rates and
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Prices hereby set upon Pain to for fiet far every such Offence the
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Sum of five Pounds to be levied as the Said Act directs to the Use of
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the party grieved.
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By the Court
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