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At',e'GENERAI. MEETING of. MALT.STERS, and.
MAKERS of MALT, residing within the City of NOR-.
WI CH and Cotinty'of NORFOLK, held at the King's
!lead Inn, Norw:ch, on Tuesday, the 17111 d.tv of
Deeeiii-
bet, nide,' to take nato taiosideretron the propriety
Of pirittouing Parliamen A t for the epeal of the Seth and
33d Seaions of the Act of 4:d of Geo,„Il I .•C hap. alitit,
, prohibiting the, watering, or sprink ling.Gndwitiaktog.imo
Malt, upon the Elem.; and also ler removing the Doios,
at present entertaitaidi. concern-nig the right of appealing
to the Justices in Quarter Session:;, rroin Convictions by
two Magistrates,
IVIr. CR ISI! IWOWN in the Chair
. It was unanimotisly Resolved, ' •
THAT the following RESOLUTION'S, entered.
into•at a G ERAL MEETING of the M A LT—,
ST ERS and. MAKERS of MALT, residing' within the.
County of SUFFOLK, at a MEETING held at the
• .Whiie Hart lon,. Stowmarket, Ott Muuday, the.vii of No-.
vember last, be agreed to, viz. ,
" That the operation of the above Clauses has been found
•by experience to be productive of the most injurious conse-
cntences 'the mannfadure of Malt, and to strojeci the fair
Trader to great di tticulnea and hardships, without any, adVint-
Lige to the Revenue. .
•• Th4t, the tilfmitre 'imbibed lay the grain in the-steep,
however long .immersed, is found to in Inc, lai,steut to the
purpose of keeping up auttki.alt vceeiati,,ii to 'carry the
acrospire as tar its the cm:l'..loe whi,;lns the-true crite-
hoe of period Malt; .and that the test riCtion ,04,,0,ad by the
.above Clauses, aeaiust feet-Lining toe lanetint vegetation,-by
'wetting the grain upon the flow, prey ;.ma to the expirattoo of
tm,;elve days, rennera- it 'in Jtill.)l6: to itanufaelnie a perfect
articie,.w,er,by great loss 1-, iustainect by the Monster, mid
.stilt greater injury by -tile catiaunter I anti that this
are not aware of any di—alv,anage which could arise to the
Revenue were .the Mak,as 'of Mitit permitted, as, heretofore,
to apOokle their Crain .upon the #pr. the 011icers'of Ex-
cise halting the poser 'at their gauges in, any state of
„eperationa,etween the ateet and
.!'hat, *mat:pelmet-It of the C.Vii above stati'd, the most op •
pressive 311 U-serious grievances to the' Manutrattheers of Malt,
yise from tile iacilitiea and. temptations which the, first men-
tioned Clause in particular affords tor tuubunded and vex-.
stious prosecutions.
" 'Chat the naturally moist appearance of the grain tipon.
,thelloor, for acme!: days.' after being' thrown front the cis
tent, added to the.tael of the Officer participating in the pe-
nalties„enables and eneourages such as arc either ignoraht,.
of the process, or inclined., to take undue- advantages, by
availingt hentaelves. of the particular stage. of ofitation when
such natural appearances may.. seem to jnatity suspicion, to
exhibit informations against the Maltater, from which no.
vigilance can guard, and no innocence. !noted lira, upon
`which convictions are accustomed to be founded on matter
.4i opinion only,. and from which no appeal isle be obtained ;
and, these vexatious and grisumiless iniorniations have of late
-become sofrerpient tram the facility with which-charges of
this description can be established, as to amount to. a most '
, gaievous evil, and to become a source of the -most serious-•'
alarm...
" That the foregoing hardships arecansiderably aggravated
by the doubts which are entertained concerning the right of
appealing from convictions under the above Act to the jus.-
ttces assembled at the General Quarter Sesons of the
Peace, a privilege extended to all oilier offences relating t 6 the
Duties on Malt and from which, as•to this particular of-
fence, upon which decisioas,'.foutlia reasons above stated,
must be so peculiarly liable to error, this laleeting cannot
conceive it was the intention of 'the Legislature; to exclude
them."
" And that to enable us' to obtain redress of the grievances
reduced by the said Clauses,. a Petition be presented to i
HonOurable the !louse of Corrimona, setting forth the same;
and praying ftir such relief as they i wisdom shall think
fit to grant. .
• Anti a Petition having been prepared and read, •
Resolved unanimously,
• That the. said Vetition is, approved by' this Meeting, and
that the- same be signed by each .peisuo -present, and be ,
forthwith sent to such Maltsters and Makers 'Of Malt as
have riot been able to attend at this,Meeting, ler their 'mance-
tive Signatures.
That a Subscription be immediately entered into for-the
purpose of raisin); a hund to provide for the expenees which
amity-arise .41 ,the -progress of this business tid that the
Chairman be Appointed Trealurer..-
. That the following Gentlemen, or any three of MOM, be
a Committee for managing the said Fund, and forwarding the
purposcaetthis Meeting, •viz. 4Sir Lacon, 'Win. Pal-
grave, Esq, John Morse, Esq. Timothy Tonipson, Esq.-
l ohn .Kerrich, ,Charles Westoa, -Mr. Edw;
Squire, Mr. B. U. Dowson, Mr: Crisp. Brown, Mr. john
Bobtail, Mr. Siday Hawes, Mr.. 'Robert Bowen, Mr, • wru,
liankes, Mr. lohn Brown, Mr. latues Cozens,. Mr. I. W.
Robberds, Mr. G. B. Georo'
Mr. 4. S. Cann, Mr, Win.
liircitam, • Mr. Sam. Bidwell, Mr. fitowas. Mickleburgh,
and Mr. Wm.. Sheppeard ; and that they -he' empower-
ed to meet anti adjourn fibril time to time,. and to take such
measures as they shall deem proper and. necessary tOr carry-
. ing.intketle6t the objcels of the foregoing Resolutions. r' • • "
ThAtmr. Henry Harmer, at .Norwich, terappointed So.
licher, 'for rentitring such professional. assistante to the Com.
mince as may .he necessary in the cOnrse of this:business.,
• That the above Resolutions be signed by the Chairman, and
advertised in the Norwich Papers, and Tue. Su hi and Tra-
veller.

CRISP BROWN, Chairman.

Resolved unanimously.
That the of this Meeting be given to'the Chair.
tmtn, for his attention to the Business of the (by, and tur his
conduct in the Chair. •

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