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Draft Open letter by one of Northumberland Committee

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Comments
See Introduction, and p 164

To the Subscribers towards the Relief of the unhappy
Sufferers by the late Flood in the Counties of York
Durham Northumberland and Newcastle in particular
and to the public in general

Some of the Subscriptions transmitted to the Banks in
Newcastle for the above Charity being directed to be applied
towards the Relief of the Sufferers in the four Counties, and
others towards the Relief of the Sufferers in the Counties of
Durham Northumberland and Newcastle, without specifying
the proportions to be paid to each County, induced the
Committee for Northumberland to apprehend that the several
persons who sent such Subscriptions intended to relieve the
several Sufferers in the respective Counties according in proportion to the
Estimates of Losses sustained in the whole each County, and the rather
as the Subscribers, if they intended to have their Subscriptions
apportioned to the Number of the Counties only without
regard to the great Inequality of Sufferers in each, might,
and certainly woud, have so expressed their Intention

          In the Newcastle News papers of the 15th of
Febry last an anonimous Advertisement appeared desiring
the Subscribers to the indigent Sufferers in the Town of
Newcastle by the late Flood to meet at the Merchants
Court on Wednesday the 19th to receive the Report of the
Committee and to settle the Distribution, at this Meeting
the following Resolutions were entred into
             copy of Resolns of 19th Feb

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