Basis or standard of the new country rate or assessment for the County Palatine of Lancaster, prepared by the Committee of Justices appointed at the Court of Annual General Session of the Peace, held by Adjournment at Preston, on the 28th day of December, 1882. Allowed and confirmed by the Court of Annual General Session of the Peace held by Adjournment at Preston, on the 3rd day of April, 1884. With the basis as allowed in 1866, 1872, and 1877, and the population of each township according to the Census of 1861, 1871, and 1881, and the acreage of each township according to the Ordnance Survey in statute measure