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I have the pleasure to inform you that your Comtee. hath regularly met, & that their Meetings have been fully attended; as every one seemd fully convinced of the necessity of putting a stop to practises that are dishonorable in their own nature & that will ultimately put metal Buttons out of Fashion as well as injure the Reputation of Birmgm. articles in general, Birmgm. Merchants, & Birmgm. Manufacturers.
Your Comtee. had, in the begining, some hopes that the grievance complaind of might be remeadyed without going to Parliamt. but after examining the Subject in every point of View they were unanimously & decidedly of opineon that it could not (as will appear by their Resolution of ye 12th Int) for the question being put to each Individual at a full meeting, one by one, whether "the Button Manufactory would be most effectualy protected, by the Merchants & "Manufacturers entering into Bonds with heavy penaltys (not to make Vend or buy ungilt or "unplated Buttons that were marked with the words Gilt or Plated) or by an Act of Parliamt.
It was Resolvd without one desinting Voice that an Act of Parlt. would be the most Eligable & most effecatious means of protecting the Trade.
Indeed the Comtee. were all convinced of the absolute necessity of such an Act & that all other modes will prove ineffectual. I am therefore desired by the Comtee. to report to you that they are fully convinced of the propriety of the 3 first Resolutions of the last General Meeting & of the necessity of carrying them into effect by an Act of Parlt. |