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Minutes of the Fifth Meeting of the Committee

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At the fifth Meeting of the Committee held 2d Day of March 1772 at the
Grand Jury Room in Hexham pursuant to adjournment

                          present

           William Fenwick             Ralph Heron
           Sir Lanct Allgood           Robert Vazie
           John Errington              The Revd Mr. Clarke
           William Ralph Smith         The Revd Mr. Laidman
           Henry Tulip ---             The Revd Mr. Stoddart
           William Bainbridge          The Revd Mr. Railton
           Francis Tweddell            The Revd Mr. Gregson
           Simon Mewburn               The Revd Mr. Rickman
           Robert Lowes                The Revd Mr. Rotheram
           Nicholas Lee                The Revd Mr. Leeke
                                       The Revd Mr. Busby


A Letter having been received by the Secretary of this Committee from each of
the Banks at in Newcastle, respectively inclosing a paper purporting to be a Copy of
the Resolutions of the Subscribers to the indigent Sufferers in the Town of Newcastle
by the late Flood made at a Meeting held in the said Town on the 19th Day of Febry
last whereby it appears it was then resolved "That the Money subscribed for the"
"Sufferers by the Flood in the three Counties of Durham, Newcastle upon Tyne and"
"Northumberland be divided into three equal parts one for each of the above mentioned"
"Countys and that the Sums subscribed for the Relief of the Sufferers in General be"
"divided into four equal parts, one for York, one for Durham, one for Newcastle and"
"one for Northumberland. And that a Copy of (that) Resolution be (that) Day sent to"
"each of the Banks in Newcastle for their Direction in distributing the Money in"
"their Hands belonging to the charity and that a copy of the same Resolution be"
"transmitted by them to the respective Secretarys to the Committees for the Countys"
"of Durham, Northumberland and York" --- WE are of opinion that the persons
who made such Resolutions had not a competent power nor sufficient Information to
ascertain or fix the proportions to be paid to the respective Countys aforesaid of the
Sums mentioned in their said Resolutions for that the Amount of the Losses in each
of the said Countys are not equal, and as there is not a Committee appointed for the
Distribution of the Subscriptions to the Sufferers in the Counties in general the several
Committees for the respective Counties ought by a certain Number to be sent from each
to assemble together and compare the respective Estimates of the several Sufferers for each
respective County so that an equal Distribution may be made of the Money so subscribed, which
we apprehend to be the Intention of the several Subscribers and that this Committee cannot
in anywise be bound by the said Resolutions made on the said 19th of Febry and it is resolved
accordingly --- And it is ordered that Copys of this Resolution shall be immediately
sent to each of the Banks in Newcastle and to each of the Secretaries of the

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