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At a numerous and Tespe&able MEETING of the WOOL-
LEN MANUFAt:TUREIZS of the WEST of ENG-
LAND; holden this 16th day of August iBoz, at the
White Harr Inn in Bath, pursuant to 'Adjournment ;
Mr. JOHI4 JONES, jun. in the Chair;

AFTER having taken into consideration the
many OUTRAGES which have recently been com-
mitted by some deluded Workmen, who ignorantly imagine
theniselves to. be injured by the use of certain Machinery,
and have in consequence reported very unfbunded and erro-
i.eous accusations against their, Masters for its introdUdion,
whereby the- public mindnuay unwarily have been influ-
enced to commiserate their representations ; and‘thei Meeting
being duly impressed with: the conviction, that the produce
of ,a man's ingenuity (as well in the woollen as in other ma,-
nufaCtures' and agriculture) is as sacred a specie% of pro-
perty as any other estate whatsoever;
It was unanin*ously Resolved,
That the Subscription entered into at the last Meeting,
for the purpose of oilering rewards for the discovery of
and bringing to convietion,the offenders; wfid have been or
shall hereafter be.guilty ot such outrageS, and for the de-
fraying.the eXpences of prosecutions, shall be promoted by
every means in the power of this Meeting.
That the Chairman be desired to caution the public against
the 'scandalous and false reports circulated by the Sheet-men
and ethers ; and also -to. caution all.er:ons against illegal
contributions,. subscriptions, and combinations.
That for the preServatioat of the.T racie.df this part of the
country, it is the determination of this.' Meeting to defend
the Machinery already introduced; and any. which; from its
utility, may be judged advisable hereafter to introduce, into
the Woollen Manufadure
.against the attacks of any person
or persons whomsoever ; the Manutidurers engaging to find
employ for all pei-SOng in their respective employment, in
some other branch of the Manutaditte, of which such person
shalt be-Capable, at ample and sutiicieut wages' • in ease, by
the introduction of Machinery', /he services of any such
,persons shall be tendered unnecessary in the particular branch
,of the Manufacture in which they are now, or have lately
been employed; so long as such petsons shall demean
selves with propriety.
Tire Chaimian having reported to the Meeting; that a Sub-
icriber having (in consequence of a promise of- a reward of
'Five Hundred Pounds, to bepaid out ofThe Fund subscribedby this Meeting) obtained information against several petsons
Concerned in setting tint to Li-ritt-roN Mitts ; and that
some of such offenders have in consequence. thereof been:ap.„
prehended and committed ;
.REsotv to, That ou the con
vidion of any one or more of such &Fenders so Committed, the
said reward of Five Hundred Pounds be paid 'l6, the Chairman
out of the Fund established by this Meetlng. , • •
, That the Chairman, with any four other Gentlernen he
inaynominate, be appointed a Committee, to examine the
several Statutes relating to the Woollen Manufactures, and
to report abstracts of their contents at the next Meeting.
That a reward of Fifty Polinds shall be paid to the first
person (whether an accomplice or not) who shall discover
the perpetrators, aidrrs orabettors, concerned Many malicious
feiony that may hereafter he cdnirnitte.:d against the property
Tor personal safety of any of the Manufaduters who subscribe
to the Fund established by this Meeting, or eif any of their
Workmen, or persons employed in their defence.; to be ,paid
on convelion• of the offender or offenders. • And that any.
person'or persons,who shall apprehend and deliver to the
Civil Power any offender or otteitders, who shall be assembled'
together for the purpose of committing depredations on the
property ot any of th,:.S übseribers, shall receive FlVeCuineas
reward for each person so apprehended, such last.mentioneo
reward to be paid on the coin/pi:mean of such °Sender or
offenders. •

That George Hayward Tugwell, Esq. Banker in.the City
of-Bath, be appointed Treasurer of the Fund belonging_ to
this Meeting, with power to make calls upon the 'Subscri-
bers, under the direction of the _Chairman, who is hereby att-
tlitiiised to- make good from such Funds any Rewards'otiered,
upon the convidion of any. Offender or Orlinders ;' and to
defray the expences of prosecution', accor4ins to the
iutions-of August ad last. - -
That these Resolutions be advertised in erns SUre and
Star, and in the Bath Chronicle, Bath Herald, R udlhill's and
Pine's Bristol, Salisbury, and Gloucester Newspapers ; and
that Copies be printed and circulated in the 'manufacturing
neighbourhoods.
That this Meeting be adjourned to Monday the tjth Day
of September next, subject to an earlier call by the Chair-
man.

Signed on behalf of the Meeting,
JOHN JUNES; jun. Chairman.

MaNDA 1, AUGUST 23, IS3Z.

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