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LEATHER TRADE.

ATaMeeting of aCommitta. of the LEATHER
-I- TRADE, held at the balk of Mrs. Harrifon, known by
the fign of the Grapes' in Halc-ttreet, Liverpool. on Friday the
Goth of fiebruary, arm, for the purpofe of taking into confi.
deration aft Advertifassent which appeared in the Manchdtcr
'Mercury, on Tucfday the tads initarct, purporting to be a
Medina of tile Batdsm, Tanners, and Skinners refs:lent in
the town and neighbourhood of Manchcitcr
It was unanimoufly rtfolved,
That it has been proved to the fatisfadion of this Com-
mittee, no tanner was relent at the raid mcc.ing, aid only one
*inner, and therefore the preamble Is fallacious—nor can the
Wolves be Lid to be unanimous, as that &in= agreed to none
of them. _ _ _ _ _

That with nfped to to the fieft refolve it may be obferved,
• that the butchers, though owners and fellers of the hides and
flans, are Co far front being the greatelt and only [offerers, they
are no [offerers.* all, fo that the late ad being repnfented as a
grievance to the butchers, is all imaginary, no reality in It, a.
the hides arc fold by the 'Matcher to the tanner at a certain peke
per pound, and engaged at that price for a quarter, a half, and
fomminies for a "dick year together, without any regard to
their being damaged In the laying, and the tanner again fells
hi. leather by weight, and it being naked or flawed, not aka -
ing the price; fo that in this cafe neither butcher or tanner are
the Nth revs, at ledt this wet the univerfal practice In the
country prior to the paling of the late adt.
That on the fecond refolve it may be obferved, that fo far
from the late art preventing the flaying of what is called fallen
beafts, the hides or grins of Each beans are goovally taken serf
by the farmers' [avant', and almoft without a Conde creep-
' lion they arc the belt flayed, as daily obferration will fully
prove.
That on the third edam It may be obferved, what kirk cm
below the knee and gambrel! produces an intimate of very nu-
tritious food of great importance to the poor, and fo far from
being ufed to make children's Owes, it Is of Hole or no un-: at
all for any of the purpofcs of leather, and it is well known that
the expence of manufaduring the (hank.. when they weroflayed,
joined to the fait colt from the butcher, was more by three-
fourths than ever could he made of them, and though it ap-
pears very pathetic in the butchers to be fo exceedingly
anxious that the revenue Mould not Coffer any loft, yet Cutely
no wife legal:dun would %elk to talk taxes on fo ruinow a plan
That on the fourth refolve it may be remarked, that the
gaihing and flawing of bides and Mins in the !laying is princi-
pally owing to the wanton negliecnce and willful eareletioefs of
the profelred flatiptermeth and not to the inexperience of the
apprentices, as a want of pradice mares than attentive to
what they are shoat, and therefore they very kidon damage
the, hide at grin, and that is theleafon, as before obferved, why
fallen bean" arc generally I. y far She heft flayed, heesure of the
care of the fawn rs'fervants,who arc not Cu expert at brandilh-
log the knife, and careldslyand aegligmtuelklug away like
the profeffed flaughterman.
That on the filth re(e)ve it may be abferved, experience has
fully proved the late ad is calculated to produce a gnat deal of
public good, as it tends atly to inereafe the quantity of ufe-
ful leather, an article of w gre
hich thae eantrot be too much, be-
ing of fuel Importance to our armies, our fleets, endear menu-
fadurers—end forely it can be fratitht with bet little incon-
venience to the butchers. The latices and hours of irkeetion
are appointed in every town and neighbourhood as convenient
as poflible. Perform are appointed infpedlors who cannot mil-
take the plain regulations laid down, be ignorant of their duty,
nor prejudiced in the exercife of it, and it they are, the aft
perrides for their removal on comp Lint being made to • ma-
giltrate, and the butcher 1. certainly ill no inltatiee obileuded
in the free eremite or hi: calling, unfcls he confiders gafbiug wad
flawing of hides and flans a pow of it.
'That on the filth rakive It may be obferred, the obtaining
the late aft originated with the Leather Trade in Liverpool,
who were dot only nn irerfally fapported by the Leather Trade
in the country, bur air, by tom: of the mot refpedable gen-
tlemen of Cr- Leather Trade in London, who have been for
fosse time pal In tonnes's* with the board of trade, reviling
all thc calling laws relating to Leather, sad intend Ist an early
period eo apply to Parliament for theonfelecs, as the fame regu-
lations that would do for the country, front local einumitan-
ees,would not do foe Loudon, and °braved the aft they Otouid
apply for would fully embrace the Mine obyd; this we rapport
will be dune as firm as tittle gendemon hove properly arranged
their ideas on a fubjed of filch importance to the Leather Trade
in general, but as the city of London hath in many cafes ex-
' dace privilege*, they mutt certainly he the mole prop? judges
I what was cokohted to aufwer their own.peerli sr titration. and
disappears to be a fad reshot why London anti its neigiabour.
hood was A spied's; the late ad
That with refpcd -to the leventh and troth re(e)ves they ap-
pear cannon:lmq to each tither, as the fevatth Lys. " That
a humble Peziticei, ike• praying for a repeal be forthwith trot&
mitted to the members of the county of Laneafter, who Men
be a:quelled to prefent the fame to Parliament intm:diately,"
but the tenth refolve Pays, That a fubferiptlon flail b< entered
into to defray.th: elpence of applying to Parliament, it folkit.
int 2n aft for the repeal Mould ultimately be found reqoifite,"
—bin it may be depended upon, it will not be ultimately found
requifite to repeal the faid Mt, and it is to be hoped thc Mothers
wll quietly and properly nay the hides and Mins witimut calling
and flawing them, which if they bad always done the late ad
would have been totally onneedifary, and which if they now
attend to, so pawky is incurred, so itigadon, so trouble, no
inenneesience expenenta
lost thek °Nervations be inferted in the hifoottelter pa-
pas, and Al, in the S roe, Sun, Cantle, Newrattle, Leeds,
Chan', Birmingham, and Bob nesepopers; that circular
letters containing the rt Collations of the Manchefter Beakers,
and the remarks of this Committee. be ismodiady fent to MI
thole plae-s who tupported the Leather Trask of Liverpool, in
obtaining the late Lalutary law, and • :ommending that all
unite Itrenuoolly to appall-, by every mean. in their power, the
repeal of an *Et produrtive of foch g • died' to the loather
Track, and kingdom at large. pram Pastors, Ckelernala.

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