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<p n="3999">July 1789</p>
<p n="4000">"The Society hope that it may be judged of sufficient importance<lb></lb>
"by the Magistrates acting as Justices in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo2592">County of Middlesex</rs>
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to<lb></lb>
"induce them to discountenance this practice, by requiring, at the time<lb></lb>
"of the general renewal of Licences, that such Pay Tables to no longer<lb></lb>
"allowed in the Public Houses within their respective Jurisdictions.</p>
<p n="4001">"The Society also request that you will be pleased to communicate<lb></lb>
"their wishes, together with the Papers inclosed, to the Chairman of the<lb></lb>
"Quarter Sessions, at the laster and Midsummer Session next ensuing.</p>
<p n="4002">"I am, Sir,<lb></lb>
"Your Etc.</p>
<p n="4003">"By Order of the Committee<lb></lb>
"<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55609_n4003-1">Samuel Bennett</rs>
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Sec."</p>
<p n="4004">"London<lb></lb>
"April 6th. 1789.</p>
<p n="4005">"I am desired by the Committee of that Society, of<lb></lb>
"which You are a Member, to acquaint you, that they have, among<lb></lb>
"Other things, taken into their serious consideration the Mischievfs and<lb></lb>
"arising from the practice of paying Labourers and Artificers their<lb></lb>
"Weekly Wages at a Publick House.</p>
<p n="4006">"The consequences of putting money into the Hands of these<lb></lb>
"poor Men with such a temptation before them to make a very improper<lb></lb>
"use of it, the Committee take it for granted, will strike you at the first<lb></lb>
"view, but they are desirous of stating to you the evil effects of this practice<lb></lb>
"as they are represented by one of the Societys Correspondents, who has long<lb></lb>
"been an eye witness of what he so forcibly describes.</p>
<p n="4007">"The workmen" he says "are obliged, for the good of the House<lb></lb>
"to wait a considerable time before the Master makes his Appearance<lb></lb>
"they cannot sit there without drinking; they are led on by degrees, till<lb></lb>
"they are detained to a very late hour, before they return to their<lb></lb>
"Families: and thus their Wives and Children are neglected: the<lb></lb>
"purchase of Necessaries is deferred till Sunday morning; the Father<lb></lb>
"of the family lies in Bed, the Mother goes to Market; the Childrens</p>
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