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circumstances of violence and want on in humanity on such of
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their improtected brethren as dared to work and as they could lay
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That exclusive of the other mischiefs which followed the
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erecting of the said office, the Scheme of the said Ralph
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Hodgson for such an institution, had in the first conception
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thereof, a tendency to defeat the purposes of an act of Parlia-
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ment made and passed in the 31st. Year of the reign of his late
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Majesty king George the 2d. which established a registry for coal-
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heavers at
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aforesaid, and comitted the government, care
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and management thereof, to the alderman of
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Ward in the
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for the time being, and had also furnished the said alderman
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and certain other persons therein directed to be chosen, with ample power
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& authorities for the purpose of making a registry of coalheavers, an
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institution of public benefit; and that the provident intentions of the
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legislature in this respect, and the endeavours of these employed
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in the execution of the said act, were actually defeated, is evident from the
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consequences of the said
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Ralph Hodgson
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's interposition, which were
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a total defection from, and desertion of the former legally established
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office, and a numerous resort & frequent application of coalheavers
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and others to this new one set up by him of his own mere motion
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and without any warrant authority or sanction whatsoever.
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That the facts above stated together with the notorious Inactivity
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& supineness, with regard to any measures for quelling the riots aforesd.
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