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BOSTON TOWN RECORDS, 1784.
they conclude that the Oppressive Attendance required of Parties, Witnesses & Jurors in the County of Suffolk (if any such there is,) arises from some other Cause than that of the increase of Buisness or the multiplication of Law Suits, because the Courts of Common Pleas in the other Countys Above mentioned, do not usually continue their Session for more than the space of one Week -
If the Buisness of a County Court is unreasonabley protracted it cannot be a Cause of dividing one County into several but the grevance ought to be redressed in some other Way as the Con- stitution of the Commonwealth has provided your Committee find that the Probate Court is Obliged by Law to become Ambulatory, and to [341.] set in Various parts of the County by which the Inhabitants receive great ease & can have nothing further done for their Benefit at present unless Countys are created by very small & important Demensions, or the Court holden in future nigher the center of the County, the mescheivous tendency of the one and the Inconvenience of the Other are mentioned in this report hereafter -.
The other reasons offered excepting that of a deversety of Interest & dissimerality of manners Apply's alike to every County in the Commonwealth it would undoubtedly be conveniant for the People in each part of the State to have Courts of Probate, Regestries of Deeds & every other office of Goverment near their own Dwellings respectivaly, but as this is in its nature impos- sible, to render the particular Circles of Juries prudence as small as consests with the Safety and Dignity of the State at large is all that can be done with propriety & Wisdom -
The Particular Countys of this Commonwealth originated, rather from the accidental settlement of the several parts of the State than from any system which regarded the future care con- venience or Interest of the People. And will therefore in the course of a few years, when the State shall be more generally covered with Inhabitants undergo such a charge & receive fresh alterations as will render their Lives convenient & parnanent. And should, one or more small Countys be erected at this Period, it is very probable, that a Necessaty of a final, & equal regulation of Countys, may in a short time render the expence now to be borne useless, & Idle -
Your Committee conceive [342.] That when a new regulation of Countys shall take place, the prudence & sagacity of a free & intelligent People, wisely regarding the dignity & energy of this Goverment will never suffer these Countys to be rendered small & contemptable for as Goverment is the Delagation of Power from the whole People to a few the weight & Authority of a few who hold the Magistratical Power, Deminishes in proportion to the
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CITY DOCUMENT.
Multiplication of Magistrates & therefore there must be in Nature a Line, whilst if exceeded on the one Hand will lessen the Just & necessary Weight of Goverment too much to consist with the happiness of the People, while an Error on the other may render Goverment Dangerous to that Interest it is intended to pre- serve.
Should a new County be now erected by the Limits proposed it would introduce a precidant for making many others within the State the consequence of which inevitably would be the Multi- plication of Officers & detracting from that Just Authority & Dignity of Office without which Civil Society can never be secure & happy -
Should an Inclination for new Countys be encouraged & pre- vail, so many wise & Able Men would be employ'd to fill Those places which are incompatable with a Seat in the Legislature that the Publick Councils would not possess that Wisdom & Ability which at this time is necessary to the Welfare of the People [343.] And your Committee take leave further to Add, that making new Countys would produce a great Number of Other Officers, whose Buisiness though not constitutionally in- compatable with a Seat in the Legislature yet renders them less useful there besides as the Legislature is the place from whence the power of the Magistrate in most instances is Derived, it might be a Question whether there ever ought to be a consider- able proportion of Men Clothed with Executive Authority hold- ing Seats in the General Court-
It is true that the Town of Boston stands remote from the local Centre of the County, but is well known that the Center of Interest & Buisness is more regarded by Men than the local Center of Districts - hence while the interior Countys which have no Market Towns or places, peculiar, to Commerce, fix -their Seat of Justice near the middle of their Circumferance the People Inhabiting the Sea port Districts, in this and every other Country, Attend the Buisness of Courts and the Metropolis of Trade, the convenience of which is fully Evinced by the consent & practice of Ages. To Burden the People at this time with a New Tax, for Court Houses, Goals &c- while the publick Debt rests so heavily upon their Shoulders, would in the Opinion of your Committee, be discovering a Trait for innovation quite un- becoming a Country Circumstanced as this is --
Your Committee were Obliged to Observe against the pretented reason said to arise from a Division of Interest between [344.] The Sea Port, and the Country Towns, that the happiness of the People must deminish, in proportion as Trade & Agriculture shall decline, that they go hand in hand & necessarily produce and support each other, the Husbandman will cease his Industry when
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he has no Market for the Superabundant produce of his Soil, and the Merchant will quit his Enterprize when his Country pro- duces nothing to export; can it be wise then even supposing seperate unconected Interest could exist to take Measures to make the Separation still wider : or can it be for the Interest of the Country at this time to originate Ideas of a diversity of Inter- ests and to throw the Farmer into an imagination that his Country can be rendered safe and himself happy with no incentive to raise more from his Sale than his personal necessaity shall demand - Commerse must be encouraged by Agriculture & our extensive Sea Coasts be by Ships supported, by Commerce defended against the Insults of every hostile Foreigner wherefore your Committee Apprehend that every Step (which tends to Cultivate an Opinion in the People of a Diversity of Interest is Dangerous to the wel- fare of the Commonwealth, nor is there so great a dissimerality of Manners between the Sea port & Country Towns, as is pre- tended, uprightness of Heart & purity of Intention seem to be equally disseminated among the Several Towns your Committee beg leave to conclude their Report by observing that in the late Revolution. the People [345.] having thrown off their Ancient Principles, & not as yet fully comprehending, the Nature or feel- ing the force of the New Ones, they have embraced, may be a Multiplication of novelties, be rendered restless uneasy & unhappy under one of the best & most equal Goverments with which Any part of the human Race were ever blessed -
Caleb Davis William Cooper S. Higginson James Sullivan
The aforegoing Report having been read & considered it was moved & the Question was accordingly put Vizt : "Whether it is the sence of the Town that the -County of Suffolk should be divided agreeable to the Petition of several Towns to the Gen- eral Court - Passed in the Negative unanimously - Then the Question was put Vizt : - Whether the Town will except of this Report -Passed in the Affirmative -
Moved, -That a Committee be appointed to prepare Reasons to be laid before the General Court why the Prayer of the Peti- tioning Towns should not be granted -
Voted, that William Tudor Esqr. Ezek1 : Price - Esqr. Stephen Higginson Esqr.
be a Committee for the purpose aforesaid & that the Report of the Committee of Conference be handed into said Committee who are desired to Report at the Adjournment -
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CITY DOCUMENT.
The Report of the Committee to Audit the Town Treasurers Accounts again read and is as follows Vizt :
The Committee appointed to Audit the Accounts of the Town Treasurer & of the Overseers of the Poor & to examine [346.] The Drafts of the Selectmen, Report as follows Vizt.
That the Treasurers Accounts are regularly entered in the Books & every charge properly vouched the Accounts, of the Overseers, are likewise duly enter'd & regularly vouched -- .
By the Treasurers Accounts it Appears he has credited the Town for Taxes committed to the Collectors - £9544 ,, 16 . 5 Warrants on the State Treasurer for the Sup- ) port of their Poor & Expencies at Rainsfords 1177 ,, 12 ,, 8
Island
Rents £453 ,, 12 ,, 8 for Fanuiel Hall Mar-
ket £324 ,, 12 ,, 42 - -
778,, 5.03
For the Ballance of last Years Accot : - - 2436 ,, 19,, 94
For Money borrowed for the Almshouse &c - 84,, 17 ,, 7
£14.022,, 8,,5₫
from which is to be deducted the
following Charges -
Paid the Selectmens Drafts Overseers - dº. -
6436 6,,7 ,
.2445 8,, 72
Abatement on the 13th & 14th Taxes - 1737 ,, 10,, 72 Loss on £6721 ,, 16 / New Emission Money sold £1330 ,, 4 ,, 4 : Interest on Notes - - -
1057 ,, 7,, 0}
2 Men for the Army & Hay for the Bull - 95 ., 9 ,, .6
13.102 ,, 7 ,, 6
£920 - 11₴
It likewise Appears by the Treasurer's Books the Town is indebted the following Sums Vizs.
Notes Given before the War Exclusive of Interst. £2177
,, 13 ,, 3
Sundry Ballances due before the War - d°. 1087 ,, 6,,2 „,
Notes given since & consolidated - do. 8440 6,,3
Sundry Ballances - - do.
-
- do. 146 2,,4
Sundry Notes for Paper Money consolidated
617
the amount uncertain suppose may be due on the Selectmen & Overseers drafts
1975 ,, 8,,3
To John Erving Esqr. Balle, of Interest -
94 ,, 1 ,, 4
Total 14.537 ,, 17 ,, 7 [347.] To discharge the aforegoing Sums there is due from the Collectors & Others Vizt. -
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BOSTON TOWN RECORDS, 1784.
from F. Shaw £334-J. Thompson £1423. Sumner £1240
Fallass -
- 391- Williams - 497 Parker 81
Baylay -
- 909 -Thomas 1264
6140
Abatements on one year & premium on three Taxes
2640
£3500 from Ruddock, Savage, Gray & Cudworth £959- of which the greatest part will be lost -
Due from the State Treasurer charg'd to P. Farmer
£1047,, 17 ,, 3-
5,,7
from Tewksbury £70 ,, 5 ,, 4. E. May £51 . 3 - 121 ,, from Sundry Others £174 of which may be recd. £110 - - 110 £38,200 in Bills of the Old Emission ) recd. 75 . 13 10,575 in Bills of the New Emission £ 6096 ,, 1 . 4
By the Selectmens Drafts it appears that the School Masters Pay, is £1208 the Watchmen £701. 2- £1909
2 The Town Clerk for 1780. 81 & 82 995 ,, 8.7 Assessors for 12 year £597 ,, 13 ,, 5 Treasurer 12 year £300 - 897,, 13 . 5
Mathew Nazro for Attendance on Selectmen, Assessors, Commee : of Correspond & Clark of ye Market
119 ,, 8-
£3921.12- 702 ,, 17 ,, 4
The Committee in part for filling up the Dock - Repairs of the Schools & Dwelling Houses - 620
Lumber, Carpenter, Masons & Smiths Accots : - 215 Glaziers Accounts for Schools & Fanuiel Hall 130
Pavers Accot. for Gravel & Paving 225
Repairs for Deer Island & Fanuiel Hall -
90
Printing Letters &c for the Commee : & Notifications 105 Repairing Engine & Engine House - - 71
Expencies Visiting the Schools, - Deer, Island Books, Paper, Ink, necessary for the Hospitals, allowed to J. Warren & Others & Sundry petty Charges
355,, 17 ;, 3
£6436,, 6,,7
[348.] By the Accounts of the Overseers of the Poor it Ap- pears there has been paid for Provisions and Necessaries for about 150 Persons in the House - £1471 ,, 15 . 7. -
for Cloathing & Docters for do. 147 . 2-
pª. Stephen Hall & Others for Wood - -
417 , 8- Wards - 130. 4.3.
pª. for Assistance to the Poor in the several
pª. for boarding sundry Persons out of the
House -
110 . 8.6-
pd. Carpenters & Masons for Repairs & La- ? bour for digging a Vault &c -
166 . 9 .11
£2445,, 8.7
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CITY DOCUMENT.
In this Account is Included the Poor belonging to the State which is reparied by a Warrant on the State Treasureys and car- ried to the Credit of the Town in the Town Treasurers Books - In the Treasurers Books, the Account of Powder is Debited £312 & by the Powder house Keepers Accounts there remains only Six & an half Barrls : & Eight Boxes of Musqueit Cartridges - By the State Treasurers Certificate herewith presented it appears there remained unpaid in the 10th of March of the Specie Tax at 1} from Francis Shaw Esqr. £385 ,, 7 . 7 On the Continental Tax Nº. 2 £6896 . 18/ from Wm. Fallass £1532 . 0 . 5
Charles Williams £1639 . 17. 3 Daniel Parker £2301 . 0 82 Thomas Bayley £1429 . 19 . 74-
These Taxes your Committee are of Opinion ought to be paid into the Treasurey immediatley and that Measures should be taken to Oblidge the Collectors to do it - It does not Appear that Mr. Simpkins Colº. Hatch or the Committee for purchasing Grain have yet Accounted for the Money they have receiv'd out of the Treasurey, these Accounts should be immediately closed, that the Town may be acquainted with the true State of their Finances - The Fire [349.] Arms belonging to the Town & carried to Cambridge before the 19th. April 1775 & there Deliv- ered out for the Use of the Army have not been accounted for by the State, nor does it appear the Arms recd : of the Board of War & delivered to the Officers of Militia have been returned or ac- counted for & your Committee propose to the consideration of the Town whether it would not be for their Interest that the Town Tax should be Delivered to Other Persons to Collect, than those Appointed to Collect the State Tax --
Boston April 3ª. 1784 - Edward Payne # Order
The Committee appointed to prepare an Estimate of the Money Necessary to be raised for the service of the Town the year ensu- ing, stating the particular Uses to which the same is to be appro- priated - Report as follows - Vizt. -
1st. that the whole Debt of the Town for Money £12,500-
borrowed &c Amount to About
Interest due on those Debts - 2,770-
unpaid of the Selectmen & Overseers raisd. 1783 2.070
Total Amount of Debts & Interest £17.340
2d. - That the Ordinary Expencies for the year ensuing for Salarys to the Schoolmasters, Rent for their Houses and of Wood - - - £1600 -
pay to the Watchmen £700 fixing Lamps £600 1300 - two years Salary to the Town Clark and 1 year ye. Treasurr.450 -
Pay of the Assessors & Clark of Fanuiel Market - 450
Paying, Repairs, Tradesmens Bills, Lumber for Re- 1800
pairs & all other Incidential Charges
$
Overseers Drafts for Supply of the Poor 2400
To discharge the aforegoing Sums £25.340
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BOSTON TOWN RECORDS, 1784.
[350.] 1t. There Appears due from the late Collectors
- £3500-
from the State Treasurer & Others -
- 1200 -
4.700-
2ª. the Bills of the New Emission £10575 from Rents of Houses, Stores, Hay, Engine £3525-
Markett & Stands 675
4,200 -
3ª. To be raised by a Tax on the Inhabitants
8,000 -
£16.900 - N. B. The Granary has been improved by the State 6. or 7 years & no rent Demanded -
The Above Sums Amountg. to £16.900 - your Committee have Appropriated as follows -
1st. To pay the Ballce : due on the drafts drawn in 1783 - £2070 -
the Overseers Draft to Farmer - 1000
towards the principal & Interest of the Debts .
1630 -
£4700 -
2ª. To pay the Schoolmasters & Watchmen £2300 the Overseers draft for Supply of ye. Poor - 1400
the remainder of the Bills are all sold to pay Interst. 500
£4200-
To pay the Selectmens drafts for the pay of ) the Assessors, Treasurer, Town Clerk fixing Lamps, Tradsmans Bills and all the incidentell Charges - the remainder of the Tax to be Apply'd to make good any difficiencys on the 2ª. & | 3ª. Articles & the residue to pay the prin- cipal & Interest of the Debts of the Town -
£3.500
4.500
8.000
£16.900
By this Arangement Provision is made -
1st. to discharge what remains due on the drafts of the last year -
2ª. to pay all the Expence of the Year ensuing
[351.] 3ª. To pay the whole of the Interest on the Debts due from the Town &c-
4th. To pay off upwards of £4000, of the principal provided all the New Emission Bills can be sold at three for one
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The Committee in order to carry the foregoing Appropriation into Effect purpose the following Votes to be passed -
Voted, that the Moneys due from the Collectors of Taxes for the last year & from the State Treasurer & Others be Appropri- ated as follows
To discharge the Sums due on the Selectmen & Overseers drafts in 1783 - - £2070- to pay the Overseers drafts to P. Farmer in 1784 - - 1.000 - Towards Paying the Principal & Interest
of the Debts
1630
£4.700
And that the Treasurer be directed not to receive from said Col- lectors any Drafts or Orders Drawn since March last in payment of the Taxes committed to them in 1783. except those drawn for Abatement of those Taxes; and their Premium for collecting them -
Voted, that the Money Arising from the Sail of the Bills of the New Emission & from the Rents of the Buildings belonging to the Town be Appropriated -
1st. to pay the Selectmens drafts of the Watchmen £700-
2ª. to pay the Salarys of the Schoolmasters their Rent & Wood - 1600 - [352.] 3ª. To Pay the Overseers drafts for the
Support of the Poor - - £1400
4th. Towards paying the Principal & Interest of the Towns Debts 500
£4200
Voted, - That the Treasurer be directed to furnish the Select- men every Month with, an Account of the Moneys he has re- ceived & paid on Accot. of the Tax due from the Collectors for the Year 1783 - for the New Emission Bills sold & for Rents - and to be careful that no part thereof be Apply'd to any other purposes than those to which they are Appropriated - and that he use his endeavour to Obtain payment from said Collectors, as soon as possible to enable him to pay the Drafts that are or may be drawn on Accot. thereof -
Voted, that the Sum of £8000-be raised by a Tax to be Assessed on the Pole & the Estates of the Inhabitants to pay the Charges of the Year ensuing & the Debts due from the Town & whereas the Premiums for Collecting & the Abatements made on the Town, County & State Taxes (which on the late Taxes amounted to upwards of 20 # Ct. on the Town Tax, are all paid
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out of the Town Tax & Often renders that insufficient to Answer the purposes intended when the same was Granted therefore
[353.] Voted, that the further Sum of £2500 be Added to the Tax mentioned in the preceeding Vote, to make Good such difficiencys as may arise from abatements of the Premiums & for Collecting the Overplus if any to be Appropriated towards paying the Debts due from the Town
Voted, that the Sum of £2500 be Appropriated out of said Tax to pay the Selectmens drafts, for the payment of the Treasurer, Town Clerk & Assessors for fixing Lamps, Paving, Repairs & all other Incidental Charges -
1137087
Voted, that the remaining £4500 of said Tax be appropriated to pay the Debts due from the Town & to make good any deffi- ciencys that may Arise on Accot. of the Money due from the Collectors or the New Emissiond Bills not being Sold -
Voted, that the Selectmen be directed in all their Drafts on the Treasurer to particularise the Appropriation out of which each sums is to be paid & that all their Drafts for Services done since March except the pay of the Watchmen & Schoolmasters are to be paid out of the Taxes now Voted - And whereas it Appears by the late Treasurers Accots : that on the 10th. of March theire remained unpaid of the Continental Tax-Nº. 2 £6896-18
Voted, that the Selectmen be desired to inform Treasurer Ivers that the Town is Anxious to have these Arreages Paid & to Ac- quaint him to Oblidge those Collectors that [354.] are Deficient immedatley to pay what remains due from each of them -The Town will remaine upwards of £8000-in Debet in Case all the Sums enumerated in this Report are received & paid agreeable to the Appropriations
In Behalf of Commee. Edwd : Payne
The foregoing Report having been considered Paragraph by Paragraph the Question was put Vizt. - Whether the same shall be Accepted passed in the Affairmitive
Adjourned to 3 O'Clock P M -
3 OClock P. M. Met According to Adjournment
The Petition of a Number of Inhabitants Proprieters of the School at the South End of the Town - Read - whereupon
Moved & Voted, that a Committee be Appointed to take this Petition into consideration and Report at the Adjournment what is proper to be done thereon ---
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Voted, That Sam1. A. Otis Esq". Christop". Gore Esq". Mr. Sam1. Whitwell be a Committee for said Purpose
The Article in the Warrant relative to the request of Mr. Jar- vis & Others for a Compensation for filling up the Dock - again read - whereupon -
[355.] Voted, that the Selectmen be desired to pursue the Vote passed Sepr. 3. 1783. with respect to settling this Matter by Arbitration -
Mr. John Marys Petition for establishing a french School- read - whereupon Voted, that he have leave to withdraw his Petition -
The Article relative to a New Choice of Assessors -read - whereupon it was moved & Voted, that the consideration thereof subside -
Moved & Voted, that the foregoing Vote be reconsidered -
Mr. McNeils Petition read - whereupon Voted that he have leave to withdraw his Petition
The Inhabitants having withdrawn as directed to bring in their Votes for seven Assessors & the same having been brought in &. sorted it appear'd that -
Messrs : William Lowder Gyles Harris Esq". Moses May John Pulling Sam1. Ruggles William Fleet J. R. Sigourney
Report of Committee relative to Mr. Aron Mays Petition - read & as it stand altered was Accepted by the Town - Vizt.
[356.] The Committee apointed by the Town to consider of Mr. Mays Petition, to enquire into the emoluments of the Weight of Hay & to report their Opinion thereon, have attended that Service, they have examined Mr. Mays Books from the Year 1773 to 1783 - & find that he has recd : the following Sums Vizt.
In the Year 1773
1774
4 Months
142 ,, 1775 8 Months 1776 5 1777 £114,, 8,, 0,, 5 4
91 ,, 2,, 5 77 ,, 19 ,, 6
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BOSTON TOWN RECORDS, 1784.
1778
118
,, 3,, 2
1779
102
„, 7 ,, 3
1780
136
,, 18 ,, 11
1781
197
„ 12 ,, 10
1782
258
6 „ 10
1783
246
18 ",
5
Boston May 14th. 1784 -
1485 ,, 18 ,, 1 Chars Miller # Order
Voted, that the Town Treasurer be directed to credit Mr. Aaron May ye. Sum of £63 ,, 2 ,, 6, being a ballance Due from him to the Town, 19th. Ap1 : 1775, which he now stands charged for
Voted, that the Gentlemen the Selectmen be directed that as soon as the New Hay Market is finished they Publish an Adver- tizement that the Scales for weighing of Hay is to be leased for the term of One Year & [357.] that it will be leased to the Person who will give the highest rent for the same & they shall apprehend him to be one who is capable of the Buisness & will faithfully discharge the duty of that Office -
Voted, that the Adjournment of this Meeting be notifyed in the Thursdays News Papers
Adjourned, to Friday next 9 - OClock in the Forenoon -
Friday May 21st. - 9 OClock Forenoon -met according to Adjournment -
The Moderator informed the Town that the Committee relative to a Corporation were not ready to report at this Adjournment -
Moved & Voted, that when this Town Meeting is Adjourned it be to Friday ye. 28 Inst : 9 oClock Forenoon - And the Meeting was Adjourned accordingly -
At a Meeting of the Freeholders & Other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston duly qualifyed & legally warned in publick Town Meeting Assembled at Fanuiel Hall on Friday the 21st of May A D 1784
Warrant for calling the Meeting - read
Colº : Dawes
chosen Moderator - by a hand Vote
[358.] Article in the Warrant Vizt. -
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" Whether the Town will reconsider their late Vote relating to the Pay of the Assessors & Determine their Allowance the ensu- ing year " - was read -
Whereupon it was Moved - to reconsider said Vote, the Ques- tion being put & it passed in the Affermative -
Voted, that the allowance to the Assessors to be nine shillings Day for the Days they may set in doing the Buisness of their Office -
Then the Meeting was Dissolved
Friday May 28th 9 OClock forenoon Met According to Adjourn- ment -
The Committee to prepare a Petition to the General Court against dividing the County report the following Draught Vizt.
Commonwealth of 2
Massachusetts -
To the Honble : the Senate and the Honble : the House of Representatives of sd. Com- monwealth in General Court Assembled at Boston May 1784 -
The Inhabitants of the Town of Boston beg leave most respect- fully to Submit to the following Objection the Petitions of the [359.] Towns of Dedham, Medfield, Wrentham Needham, Medway, Bellingham, Foxbourough, Sherburne, Hopkington, Hol- liston & Natick, Praying for a Division of the present County of Suffolk & the requesting the creating a New one, to the consider- ation of this Honble : Court & pray the proposed Dismembermant of this County may not be Adopted -
The reasons assigned in the Petition are 1st. That the Business of the Courts of Justice in the County of Suffolk had be come so extensive that Parties, Witnesses & Jurors are commonly obliged to Attend at the Court of Common Pleas for the space of three Weeks together & sometimes longer & that the Travel from the extreme parts of the County to the shire Town is large & expen- sive -
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