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<NAME>Emma Leeson Huber</NAME>
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<HEAD>THE CASE OF Many Inhabitants of the Town of <HI>Chattham,</HI> in the County of <HI>Kent,</HI> many of which are Inn|holders, and Victuallers.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To the Honourable <HI>Hou&s;e of Commons</HI> in Parliament A&s;&s;embled.</HEAD>
<P>THAT the &s;aid Inhabitants have from time to time as often as occa&s;ion hath been, Entertained Sick and Wounded Seamen, &s;ent on Shore from the Men of War, during all the Time of the late War; and have furni&s;hed them with all Nece&s;&s;aries for their Sub|&s;i&s;tence.</P>
<P>THAT the &s;aid Inhabitants have by &s;uch Sub&s;i&s;tence run them&s;elves into very many and great Debts with their Brewers, Bakers, Butchers, and other Trade&s;men.</P>
<P>THAT the &s;aid Inhabitants are brought &s;o very poor, that they cannot any longer give Sub&s;i&s;tence to the &s;aid poor Seamen; and the &s;aid Inhabitants and their Families mu&s;t unavoidably peri&s;h, if not timely reliev'd; &s;everal of them having been Arre&s;ted by their &s;aid Creditors, and others withdrawn for fear, having left their Families to Ruin.</P>
<P><HI>Wherefore the &s;aid Inhabitants mo&s;t Humbly beg, That this Honourable Hou&s;e would be plea&s;ed to take their mi&s;era|ble Ca&s;e into Your &s;erious Con&s;iderations; and to give them &s;uch Relief therein, as Your Honours &s;hall think convenient, that thereby they may be enabled &s;till to &s;up|ply the &s;aid Sick and Wounded Seamen;</HI></P>
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