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London, England, 1807-04-09 00:00:00

ALIsION FIRE and LIFE COMPANY, of LONDON,

FOR INSURANCE FROM FIRE,AND ON LIVES; AND
FOR THE GRANTING OF ANNUITIES.
CAPITAL, ONE MILLION.

pOLICIE3 expiring at LADY-DAY, Ihould be
renewed within fifteen days from that period.

No charge nude for Policies, cr Indortements ; and other va-
luable advantages afforded, both with refpc to lufurance from
Fir E. and on I.lv ES A large Deduetion allowed on the Premi-
ums Of Fire 1111UranCCS OUT or LONDON.

Proporals miy be bad at the Company's Houfc, in 'CuANGt•
ALLEY, CORNllLLL.—Attendance, daily, from nine to four.
By Older of the Board of Directors,
WARNER PHIPPS, Secretary.

ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE OFFICE.
March, sky.
PERSONS whofe annual Premiums fall due on the
ssta haft. are hereby informed, that Receipts are now ready
to be delivered at the Company's Offices, over the ROYAL Ex.
CHANCI and in PALL-MALL, as well as by their refpedtive Agents
in the feveral Counties; and the parties alTured are requefted to ap-
ply, for the renewal of their Policies, on or before the gth of
April next, as the ufual fifteen days allowed for payment, be-
yond the date of cach Policy, will then expire.

SAMUEL FENINTING, jun. See.

••• Attendance is given, daily, at the faid Offic •r, for the
Affurance of Buildings, Gooda, Merchandize, and Ships in Har-
bour, in Dock, or while Building, from Lap or Damage by Fire ;
and for the Affurance of, and granting Annuities on Lives.
N.B. Fire Policies will k if:edirte of expense to the ifiiired where
the Annual Prewar', amounts to 6s. or upwards.

AI,TI RATION IN THE FOOR LAWS,
A' propoled by a BILL now pending in PARLIAMENT.
AT a Meeting of the Coal and Iron Mailers. Ma-
i- nufa&urers ancl Tratlefmen, of the Hundred of Searfdale,
in the County of Derby, held at the houfc of Mr. William Lovett,
the Angel Inn, in ChLiterfichl, in the raid Hundred, on Thurfday
the id day of April, 1837, and (by adjournment) on the day but
one following,
bjOSEPH Bit fLER, Efq. in the Chair,

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it was unanimoufly refolved,
That the alteration of the Poor Laws, as propelled by the raid
Bill, will be highly oti.:diosiablc, for the following, amungit many
other rcafons, viz.
uft, 13ecaufc, It is thereby propofed to afters to the Poor, and alfo
to the County Rates, all Sera: is ?rade , and all other perforeal
Property; to afcertain the annual value of which, by the means of
Parifh Officers, win not only be extremely haraffing to the lubjed,
but intuit alto oceafion an increafed price to the Public for every
raw and manufadured Article whatever.

Idly, Becaufe the rropofed Bill will completely prevent all get.
tcrs of raw materials and miumfadurcrs from getting arid accu-
mulating (as is the common cafe,) large Rocks on hand, at times
of the year when (from fcarcity of water in canals and a variety of
other caufes) they c innut find kfale or confumption for their corn-
moditics ; the corifequenee of which will be that large numbers of
workmen and labotie.rs mull in the firft inftance be temporarily
thrown out of employ, to the charge of the pariffies, and the country
at large will in confequence be thereby ultinaatcly both oppreffed
and inconvenienced. •
3dly. Becaufe the afeertaining the eorreet annual value of Rocks
In trade and other per funal property by Lie means of parith officers,
is in the opinion of tnis Meeting impradicable ; and therefore
that the oath irnpofed by the Bill upon the parifh officers, when
taking their poor affeffinents to the Quarter Seffions for adoption
by the Magittrates as to the county rates, mull be alike entharraf- •
Ping to the officers, and nugatory in its effects.
*My, Becaufe it is propofed by the Paid Bill to extend the plan
of alfelling Stocks in Trade and Perfonal Elates to the Comity, as
well as to the Poor Rates, except in the Counties of Middlefex
and Leicelter, by means of which exemption Manufacturers, Mer-
chants, and Tradefineu of thole two Counties, will, it is appre•
herded, he wholly or partially exempted from the operations of the
Bill, which is conceived by this Meeting to be an undue diftinc-
tion, and manifellly giving the Merchants and Tradefmen of thole
two Counties great commerei O. advantages over the Merchants
and Tradefmen of the other parts of the Kingdom.
And !ally, Becaufe no .fradefman can have fufficient confidence
in his Trade (when fubjedted to fo heavy and novel an impoft) to
warrant his in keeping a ufually large Rock on hand, while the
Hawker and Pedlar (with a conitantly (mall and tranfitory Rock)
will efeape the full operation of the Bill, and be thereby enabled to
underfelt the regular and itationtry trader.
Refolved, That there Refolutions be figned by the Chairman and
Publiffied. in the STA a, Courier, Sun, and provincial Newfpapers,
and that this Meeting do cooperate with every other Provincial
or Parochial Meeting, (already called or to be called) in petition-
nig the honourable Hoare of Commons, agairat the Paid Bill being
paffud into a Law. JUSLPH BUTLER, Chairman.