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 A.D. 1745. Anno decimo o&avo Georgii II. C. 14, 15, 599 and Capital Burgefles of the faid Town of Beverley-, have borrowed a confiderablc Sum of Money upon the Credit of the Tolls and Duties thereby granted ; and although the fame, together with the Income arifing from the Tolls and Duties collected, have been applied according to the Directions of the faid . f Act, yet the fame are found infufficicnt to anfwer the Intention thereof; and the faid Beck being now £ in very great Danger of being choaked and warped up by the Sludge and Soil brought in by the Tides, I and by the Earth falling in from the Banks of the faid Beck, which in many Places on both Sides t thereof are fhot in, and will require to be repaired and fupported by Piles, and other expenfive Works, I without which the faid Beck cannot be kept open and fufficiently cleanfed : And forafmuch as the clean- ling, deepening, widening and preferving the faid Creek or Beck, and amending, repairing and main- f taining the faid Banks, Staiths, Roads and Ways, will be a continual Expence, and will require more c Money than can be raifed by the prefent Duties granted by the faid Act, which are in many Refpects ' unequal, and not duly proportioned to the refpective Values of the Goods chargeable therewith :' Wherefore for the better enabling the Mayor, Aldermen and Capital Burgefles of the laid Town of Be- verley, to cleanfe,_ deepen, widen, and preferve the faid Creek or Beck, and to amend, repair, maintain and keep up the faid Banks, Staiths, Roads and Ways, and to bring the Duties granted by the faid Act to a nearer Equality and Proportion ; May it pleafe your moft Excellent Majefty, that it may be enacted, &c. " Additional Tolls to be paid after May i, 1745. For every Chaldron of Coals, 2d. Quarter of Oats, ' Barley, or Malt, 1 q. Quarter of Wheat, Rye, Mefsledine, Beans, Peafe, Rapefced, Hempfeed, Lin- " feed, or other Seed or Grain, iq. Hundred of Flour, 3 q. Hogfhead of Salt, 4^. Tun of Salt, in ■' Bulk, z d. 3 Hogfheads of Sugar, Tobacco, Melafles, or of other Goods, 8^. 4 Hogfheads of Wine " or Rum, is. Sd. Hogfhead of Brandy or Spirits, d. 8 Barrels of Soap, Raiflns, Oil, Pitch, Tar, " or other dry Goods, d. Butt of Currans, Sd. 2 Pipes of Smyrna Raifins, 8^. 16 Bags of Nails, d. te or Stone, 2d. 2 Bags of Hops, 8^/. Quarter of Oatmeal, 2 q. Hundred of Pipe Staves, id. 2q. " Dozen of Cynders or Charcoal, 2q. 20 Sheep Skins, iq. Quarter of Bark, 1 q. Pack of Wool, or " other Goods, id. 12 Dozen of Bottles, 1 d. 4 Bufhels of Roots or Fruit, 2q. Tun of Hemp, " Line, or Flax, yd. Quarter of Fern Afhes, 2d. Small Rundlet of Liquor, not exceeding 10 Gal- " Ions, 1 q. Every fmall Cask or Parcel, not exceeding 112 Pounds, 1 q. And for every Tun of other '" and the former Act to be continued. Streets, &c. of Beverley, to be cleanfed by the Inhabitants; or, CAP. XIV. An Act for enlarging the Terms and Powers granted by feveral Acts of Parliament for repairing the Highways between Sheppards Sbord and the Devizes, and the Top of Jjhlington Hill and Rowd Ford in the County of Wilts. P R. Acts of 5 Ann. and ri Geo. 1. c. 27. continued for 21 Years. C A P. XV. An Kdc for making the Surgeons of London and the Barbers of London two feparate and di- ftinct Corporations. ' "ITTHEREAS in and by certain Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of England, bearing Date I"?"*" Patent VV the twenty-fourth Day of February in the firft Year of the Reign of his then Majefty King Ed- cf * ^ dw - 'Y.' ward the Fourth, after reciting, That the Freemen of the Myftery of Barbers of the City of London, %l?% w <&vi* t ~ ufing the Myftery or Faculty of Surgery, had for a long Time, exercifed and fuftained, and ftill conti- nued to exercife and fuftain great Application and Labour, as well about the curing and, healing Wounds, Blows and other Infirmities, as in the letting of Blood, and drawing of" Teeth ; and that by the Ignorance and Unfkilfulnefs of fome of the faid Barbers, as well Freemen of the faid City as of others, being foreign Surgeons, many Misfortunes had happened to divers People, by the Unfkilfulnefs of fuch Barbers and Surgeons, in healing and curing Wounds, Blows, Hurts and other Infirmities ; and that it was to be feared, that the like or worfe evils might thereafter enfue, unlets a fuitable Remedy v/as fpeedily provided in the Premiffes; his faid then Majefty did therefore, at the Supplication of the Free- men of the faid Myftery of Barbers, in the faid City of London, grant to them, amongft other Things, that the faid Myftery, and all the Men of the fame Myftery of the faid City, fhould be one Body, an-d one perpetual Community; and that two Principals of the fame Commonalty, of the moft expert Men in the Myftery of Surgery, might with the AiTent of twelve, or eight Perfons at the leaft, of the fan>e Community, every Year ele£t and make out of the Community two Matters or Governors, being the moft expert in the Myftery of Surgery, to overfee, rule and govern the Myftery and Commonalty afore?- faid, and all Men of the fame Myftery and the Affairs of the fame; and that the aforefaid Matters or Governors, and Commonalty, and their Succellbrs, might make Statutes and Ordinances for the Go- vernment of the faid Myfteries ; and that the Matters or Governors for the Time being, and their Suc- cellbrs, fhould have the Survey, Search, Correction and Government of all the Freemen of the faid City, 4 being
 * pofes in the faid Ac! mentioned : And whereas fince the pafling the faid Act, the Mayor, Aldermen,
 * ' Tun of Iron or Lead, Sd. 32 Firkins of Butter, $d. 20 Hundred of Cheefe, yd. Tun of Timber
 * Goods, Vs. payable to the Mayor, &c. of Beverley, for cleanfing, &f. the Beck. Duties prior to this
 * ' on their Neglect, by Order of the juftices."