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