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Friday 8th November Left Mr Ords early, that I might reach Alston in time to arrange with Mr Dickinson about receiving the rents before the hour for the road meeting. It will be seen from the list, that most of the small tenants in that district paid their rents with tolerable punctuality - as many of them walk from a distance of several miles, it seemed hard that they should have no refreshment, when a dinner is given on such occasions all over the Country. I therefore ordered for them a little Ale & bread & cheese, which did not detain them half an hour, & with which they were vastly satisfied. It will be seen that the twenty penny Fines left by Mr Hooper for Mr Bainbridge to collect, have all been obtained, except in the case of some old and deserted tenements whose inhabitants have emigrated to America, leaving them in the hands of a Mortgagee. I imagine the trifling sums will not make it worth while for the Hospital to take possession. The Road Meeting was numerously attended and of long continuance. After much discussion & less unanimously than might have been wished, resolutions were adopted which it is not necessary that I should here detail, as a Copy of them will be furnished me in a few days by the Clerk for the Road. In the evening Mr Bainbridge & a few of the more respectable tenants who have been usually invited to dinner on the occasion, made a quiet party, from whom I endeavoured to gain all the information I could respecting the district & its mining operations. I must not omit to mention the Boards decision to reduce the Duty Ore, was received with many expressions of satisfaction & gratitude.
