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<p n="199"> At the Council-Chamber, <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50921_geo76">Whitehall</rs>
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, the 22d of December, 1795.</p>
<p n="200">PRESENT</p>
<p n="201">The Lords of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council.</p>
<p n="202">THEIR Lordships, taking into Consideration the Resolutions of both<lb></lb>
Houses of Parliament, and the Agreements entered into in the said Houses<lb></lb>
of Parliament, for reducing the Consumption of Wheat, in the different<lb></lb>
Modes described in the said Agreements, by at least One Third of the usual<lb></lb>
Quantity consumed in ordinary Times, think proper to recommend to his<lb></lb>
Grace the Duke of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50921_geo77">Portland</rs>
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his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the<lb></lb>
Home Department, to write to the Custodes Rotulorum of the several Coun-<lb></lb>
ties and Ridings of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50921_geo78">England</rs>
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and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50921_geo79">Wales</rs>
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, and to the Chairman of the Quarter<lb></lb>
Sessions of the several Counties, Ridings and Divisions in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50921_geo80">England</rs>
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and Wales,<lb></lb>
and to the Mayor or Chief Magistrate of all Corporate Towns, and to the Chief<lb></lb>
Magistrate or Chief Officer of all Cities or Towns which are Counties of<lb></lb>
themselves; and also to the Sheriffs Depute of the several Counties and Shires<lb></lb>
of that Part of Great Britain called <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50921_geo81">Scotland</rs>
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; transmitting to them respectively<lb></lb>
Copies of the said Resolutions and Agreements, and desiring them to commu-<lb></lb>
nicate the same to the Magistrates within their respective Counties, Shires, Ri-<lb></lb>
dings, Divisions, Cities, and Towns, and earnestly to recommend that the said<lb></lb>
Magistrates would enter into the said Agreements, or one of them, and take the<lb></lb>
most effectual Means to induce the Gentry and Inhabitants, within their res-<lb></lb>
pective Districts, to enter into and strictly observe the same; and also take the<lb></lb>
most effectual Means to induce all Persons having the Direction of any Piblic<lb></lb>
Foundation or School, or of any House of Industry or Place of Confinement,<lb></lb>
within their several Districts, to cause one or other of the Modes proposed in<lb></lb>
the said Agreements, for diminishing One Third of the Consumption of<lb></lb>
Wheaten Flour, to be observed within such Foundation of School, or House<lb></lb>
of Industry or Place of Confinement; and to recommend, that, in all Cases<lb></lb>
where Bread shall be distributed in Charity, or where any Sums arising from<lb></lb>
private Subscription or Donation, or from the Poor's Rate, or any other Fund,<lb></lb>
shall be applied to supply the Poor with Bread at the reduced Prices, the<lb></lb>
Bread so distributed or supplied shall contain a Mixture to the Amount of One<lb></lb>
Third part of some other Article than Wheat.</p>
<p n="203">And their Lordships further think proper to recommend to his Grace the<lb></lb>
Duke of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50921_geo82">Portland</rs>
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to transmit Copies of the said Resolutions and Agreements to<lb></lb>
the Archbishops and Bishops of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50921_geo83">England</rs>
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and Wales, and the Moderator of the<lb></lb>
late general Assembly of the Church of Scotland at Edinburgh, desiring that the</p>
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