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Draft Open letter by one of Northumberland Committee

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2nd (March)

    a Copy of these Resolutions being transmitted to the
Secretary to the Northumberland Committee, he laid the same
before them at their Meeting at Hexham on the 2d instant,
when, observing not only it appearing not only from the express Letter of the
Advertisement, which was the Foundation of the Meeting on the
19th Feb, but from the Stile of Title prefixed to the Resolutions themselves,
                 Gentlemen who called themselves
that they were made ^ by Subscribers to the indigent Sufferers
                                Northumberland Committee
in the Town of Newcastle, only ^ the Gentlemen who composed
that Committee were unanimously of Opinion that such
Subscribers had no power to direct the Distribution of the
Subscriptions made for the Relief of the Sufferers in the several
Counties collectively, and that if all or any part of the
Gentlemen who attended at the Meeting on the 19th Feb were
Subscribers to the Sufferers in the several Counties generally
yet they cou'd have no power at that Meeting to apportion
the Sums to be paid to each County, inasmuch as the
Advertisement by extending only to the Town of Newcastle
virtually excluded the general Subscribers from any Share
in the Business of that Meeting, and not having in the
Returns made from the Banks of the general Subscriptions
seen the Names which were affixed to the Resolutions of
the 19 Feb, they resolved as follows
              copy Resns 2 March

       Copies of these Resolutions were accordingly sent to
the Secretaries of the several Committees and to the Banks

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