At the Council-Chamber, Whitehall , the 22d of December, 1795.

PRESENT

The Lords of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council.

THEIR Lordships, taking into Consideration the Resolutions of both
Houses of Parliament, and the Agreements entered into in the said Houses
of Parliament, for reducing the Consumption of Wheat, in the different
Modes described in the said Agreements, by at least One Third of the usual
Quantity consumed in ordinary Times, think proper to recommend to his
Grace the Duke of Portland his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the
Home Department, to write to the Custodes Rotulorum of the several Coun-
ties and Ridings of England and Wales , and to the Chairman of the Quarter
Sessions of the several Counties, Ridings and Divisions in England and Wales,
and to the Mayor or Chief Magistrate of all Corporate Towns, and to the Chief
Magistrate or Chief Officer of all Cities or Towns which are Counties of
themselves; and also to the Sheriffs Depute of the several Counties and Shires
of that Part of Great Britain called Scotland ; transmitting to them respectively
Copies of the said Resolutions and Agreements, and desiring them to commu-
nicate the same to the Magistrates within their respective Counties, Shires, Ri-
dings, Divisions, Cities, and Towns, and earnestly to recommend that the said
Magistrates would enter into the said Agreements, or one of them, and take the
most effectual Means to induce the Gentry and Inhabitants, within their res-
pective Districts, to enter into and strictly observe the same; and also take the
most effectual Means to induce all Persons having the Direction of any Piblic
Foundation or School, or of any House of Industry or Place of Confinement,
within their several Districts, to cause one or other of the Modes proposed in
the said Agreements, for diminishing One Third of the Consumption of
Wheaten Flour, to be observed within such Foundation of School, or House
of Industry or Place of Confinement; and to recommend, that, in all Cases
where Bread shall be distributed in Charity, or where any Sums arising from
private Subscription or Donation, or from the Poor's Rate, or any other Fund,
shall be applied to supply the Poor with Bread at the reduced Prices, the
Bread so distributed or supplied shall contain a Mixture to the Amount of One
Third part of some other Article than Wheat.

And their Lordships further think proper to recommend to his Grace the
Duke of Portland to transmit Copies of the said Resolutions and Agreements to
the Archbishops and Bishops of England and Wales, and the Moderator of the
late general Assembly of the Church of Scotland at Edinburgh, desiring that the