Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1837-04-22

after short recess, reported the following
preamble and resolutions, which were unan-
mously adopted
Whereas, we have noticed in newspaper
called the Miami of the Lake, under date of
the 18th OF March, A. d. 1887, the proceed
ings of meeting of the Forwarding and
Commission Merchants of Perrysburg and
Maumee City, held at the former place on the
18th Of said month, establishing and combin-
ing in charging unusual and extortionate pri-
ces in the transaction of the forwarding and
commission business, necessarily to be done
at or near the mouth of the Maunlee river, and
whereas, we deem such course on the part
of said merchants, both inexpedent, uncaled
for, and unusual, tending to shut out fair
and proper competition in said business, and
subjecting the Merchants, Tradesmen and
other citizens of the interior, to oppressive
charges, delays, and impositions.
1t is therefore Resolved, That we consider
the rules and regulations adopted by the Sto-
rage and Forwarding Merchants of Perrys-
burg and Maumee City, to impose unusual
hardships, to be oppressive, and that they
will subject Merchants and other citizens in
this part of the country, and those residing
west of us, who transport theirgoods and pro-
perty through this route, to unusual losses,
delays, and inconveniences.
Resolved, That it is with feelings of regret
we notice the display of such spirit of COM
bination and excessive exaction, now that an
immense business is opening, on the part of
those with whom we anticipated to transact
our business in satisfactory and usual man
ner. ,7
Resolved, That we have carefully examin-
ed their adopted catalogue of charges for sto-
rage and commis sion, and believe those speci-
fed, to be much higher than those heretofore
charged for the transaction of the like bu-
siness, without any good or satisfactory reason
being assigned for the Unexpected and extray-
agant increase in said charges.
Resolved, That we consider the regulation
adopted, requiring all charges to be paid on
goods previous to their being forwarded, as
exacting an unprecedented rule, in no wise
adopted to the present manner of transport
ing from the Lake, and one that will subject us
to great inconveniences, delays and losses.
Resolved, That committee of five persons
be appointed to correspond with the Forwar-
ding Merchants of Toledo and Manhattan,
and ascertain the rules usually adopted in re-
lation to forwarding goods; and on what terms
they will forward goods to the head of the
Rapids of the Maumee and that, if any ad-
vantage can be had by doing our business
with the forwarding men of Toledo or Man
haitian, in preference to Maumee and Perrys-
burg, we pledge ourselves not to consign our
goods to any of those Merchants engaged in
the combination before alluded to, unless they
revoke the present rules and charges they have
adopted so far at least as we consider them
to be Objectionable and unprecedented and
further, that said committee be requested and
instructed, as early as practicable, to colnmu-
nicate to merchants leaving for New York and
Philadelphia, the result of said correspon-
dence.
[Samuel Hanna, G w Ewing, J b Bouse,
Samuel Edsall, and Allen Hamilton, were ap-
pointed said committee.
Resolved, That said committee be reaues-
ted and instructed to correspond with the
merchants of Logansport, Defiance, and othei
towns on the line of the Wabash and Erie
j Canal, and .soicit them to unite with us il
adopting measures to resist the oppressive ant
injurious course adopted by said Forwarding
and Commission Merchants of Perrysburg AM
Maumee City.
Resolved, That the proceedings of th
meeting be signed by the Chairman and Sc
cretary, and published in the Fort Wayn,
Sentinel, Logansport Telegraph. Miami of tn,
Lake at Perrysburg, and Maumee Express
published at Maumee City.
FRANCIS COMPARET, Pres't.
JOSEPH SINCLEAR, Sec'y.