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Resolution from York Committee

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George







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? ?damaged, possibly 'the county'

Sir
The Copy of the Resolution of the Committee assembled at Hexham on the
2d day of March 1772 has been laid before the Committee for the County
of York held here this day; and I am desired to return their Acknow-
ledgments to the Gentlemen who signed that Resolution for their
kind Intentions in favour of the Sufferers in this County; but
this Committee having on the 9th of January last come to the
Resolution; a Copy of which is subjoined, it is not now in their
power to Depart from the plan then fixed upon, and consequently
the Contrabutions made for this County must be Confined to the
Sufferers in this County, and they are not intitled to Accept
of any proportion of the Money Collected in other Counties.
          I am Sir               Your most Obt huml Servt
                                 Geo Ewbank Treasurer
                                 York 9th March 1772
a Copy of the Resolutions of the Committee held at York
the 9th of January 1772 for the Relief of the Sufferers by
the late Inundations in the North (viz)
at a Meeting of the Committee held this day, it having appar
Appeard that the rest of the County wch have set on foot a Sub-
scription for the Relief of the Sufferers by the late Inundations
have Confined them to ? Own particular Countys, and
an Advertisement signif? such intention has been produced
from the Subscribers of ? ?unty of Durham these Resol-
utions of so Confining their Subscriptions have putt the
the Committee for the City and County of York under the
Necessity of Contracting their general plan of releiveing
all the Sufferers in the North, and of Confining their
Benefactions to the unfortunate of their own County,
which upon Consideration had of the above Circumstances is
now resolved upon.