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<HEAD>REASONS Humbly Offered, For Setling a Yearly Incom from <HI>Hackny-Coachmen,</HI> and by a Duty on <HI>Coals,</HI> towards the Relief of the <HI>ORPHANS</HI> of the City of <HI>London.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_AS to the Yearly Incom from <HI>Hackny-Coachmen,</HI> It is humbly Offered, That they &s;hould be under the Government and Regulation of the City of <HI>London,</HI> and Pay to the City towards Relief of the ORPHANS.</P>
<P>The City of <HI>London</HI> hath Time out of mind made By-Laws for regulating Di&s;orders and Annoy|ances within the &s;aid City and its Liberties; And on this account did very Anciently limit the Numbers of <HI>Carrs</HI> to be u&s;ed in <HI>London-Streets,</HI> and give them Licen&s;es yearly, (which hath been often Allowed in <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter-Hall</HI>); And likewi&s;e the <HI>Common Council</HI> of <HI>London</HI> did of Later years, after the Expiration of the <HI>Act of Parliament</HI> touching <HI>Hackny-Coaches</HI> (by Advice of Learned Council) make an Act to prevent Nu&s;ances in the Streets, and to the Inhabitants of the City and Damage of Trade by the multitude of <HI>Hackny Coaches,</HI> Re&s;training them to a Number and regulating their Standings.</P>
<P>By the former <HI>Act of Parliament</HI> for Licen&s;ing of <HI>Hackny Coaches,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">13 <HI>&amp;</HI> 14 <HI>Car.</HI> 2.</NOTE> the Rent of <HI>Hackny Coaches</HI> was Appointed for Enlarging &s;everal Streets, as well in <HI>London</HI> as <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter;</HI> And altho' there was rai&s;ed thereby 34000 <HI>l.</HI> it was all applied to <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> except 1000 or 1500 <HI>l.</HI> for Rebuilding <HI>Temple Bar;</HI> which was as well for the Convenience of <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> as <HI>London,</HI> being the common Boundary and Pa&s;&s;age of them both: So that to give <HI>London</HI> an equal Advantage (the <HI>Streets</HI> whereof are as much at lea&s;t u&s;ed and broken by <HI>Hackny Coaches,</HI> as <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI>); It is humbly de&s;ired, That <HI>London</HI> may now have the Benefit of that Revenue (as <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> had it before) towards the Relief of &s;o many <HI>Di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Orphans.</HI></P>
<P>The Lo&s;s is exceedingly Great the City of <HI>London</HI> &s;u&s;tained by the Dreadful FIRE in <HI>Anno</HI> 1666, con&s;idering their <HI>Hou&s;es</HI> burnt down, a va&s;t quantity of <HI>Goods</HI> and <HI>Merchandizes</HI> de&s;troyed, the great Charge of <HI>Rebuilding,</HI> the Interruption of their <HI>Trade,</HI> and the Carrying it in great mea&s;ure out of the <HI>City;</HI> Whereby the Lo&s;&s;es and Calamity that befel <HI>London,</HI> have been a very great Gain and Advantage to <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> and the adjacent Parts in <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> in the Improvement and Increa&s;e of their <HI>Rents</HI> and <HI>Trade.</HI></P>
<P>The City of <HI>London</HI> is Charged in all <HI>Taxes</HI> much higher than <HI>Middle&s;ex</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and had pre&s;&s;ed for a con&s;iderable Abatement in the la&s;t <HI>Aid,</HI> had it not been for Retarding the <HI>Act;</HI> And that they were in hopes of the <HI>Parliaments</HI> further A&s;&s;i&s;tance, in enabling them to Pay their <HI>Orphans.</HI></P>
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<P>The City of <HI>London</HI> provides <HI>Sheriffs</HI> for the County of <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> and excu&s;eth the <HI>Gentlemen</HI> of the County from that Charge, Maintains the <HI>County Gaol</HI> for <HI>Middle&s;ex</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and is at the &s;ole Charge of Keeping all <HI>Se&s;&s;ions</HI> for Gaol-Delivery for all their <HI>Felons.</HI></P>
<P><HI>London</HI> al&s;o Contributes towards Supporting the <HI>Poor</HI> of divers Pari&s;hes, in <HI>Middle&s;ex</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"></P>
<P>In Reference to the <HI>Coal-Revenue</HI> de&s;ired, It was concluded by former <HI>Parliaments,</HI> to be the mo&s;t Equal and Indifferent way of Rai&s;ing Mony for Building the <HI>Churches,</HI> and other like Publick U&s;es in <HI>London;</HI> And it is humbly hoped, <HI>This Parliament</HI> will be&s;tow it now upon the City, for Relief of <HI>Their Orphans:</HI> The Burthen whereof will not be great, and will lye principally on <HI>London</HI> and the Parts adjacent, who make no &s;mall Advantage by their Neighbourhood to <HI>London,</HI> and may well (for that and other Rea&s;ons before mention'd) contribute &s;o &s;mall a Part towards Relief of the <HI>Orphans;</HI> And even tho&s;e Parts without the City of <HI>London,</HI> are Inhabited by great Numbers of its <HI>Citizens.</HI></P>
<P>The Government of the City of <HI>London</HI> (unle&s;s delivered from the Pre&s;&s;ure of this Great Debt) cannot long &s;ub&s;i&s;t; And it may be con&s;idered, That the <HI>City</HI> is u&s;eful and &s;erviceable to the Nation in divers re&s;pects, particularly by the Great Sums rai&s;ed Yearly to the Crown by its <HI>Trade;</HI> the Cities &s;upplying Mony by <HI>Loans</HI> on all publick Emergences; and the great Part it bears of the <HI>Kingdoms Tax:</HI> And it may be for the Honour of the Nation, That the Government of its <HI>Capital City</HI> &s;hould be Maintained, and <HI>A&s;&s;i&s;tance</HI> given them for Di&s;charging a DEBT (wherein &s;o many <HI>Poor Per&s;ons</HI> are concerned) Contracted only by the many great and unavoidable <HI>Calamities</HI> that have befallen the <HI>City,</HI> and by Payment of <HI>Intere&s;t</HI> from time to time: And not (as hath been &s;ugge&s;ted) by the pre&s;ent Government of the City, or in Extravagant Expences to Maintain the <HI>Mayor</HI> and <HI>Sheriffs,</HI> who Serve the Government at their own great Expence; And &s;ome of them have had their <HI>E&s;tates</HI> greatly exhau&s;ted thereby.</P>
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<P>Printed by <HI>SAM&V;EL ROYCROFT,</HI> Printer to the Honourable CITY of <HI>LONDON,</HI> 1691.</P>
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