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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<HEAD>REASONS most humbly offer'd by the po<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> Trade&s;men, for Pa&s;&s;ing the <HI>Salt-petre</HI> Bill.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas in a printed Paper, again&s;t pa&s;&s;ing the &s;aid Bill, delivered at this mo&s;t Honourable Hou&s;e, it is mo&s;t fal&s;ely (and &s;elf-intere&s;ted|ly) a&s;&s;erted, by &s;ome Engro&s;lers of that &s;mall quantity of <HI>Salt petre</HI> now in <HI>England,</HI> That the Pretences of the poor Trade&s;men, who &s;ollicite the pa&s;&s;ing the &s;aid Bill, are frivolous and incon&s;iderable, the &s;aid Engro&s;&s;ers well knowing, if the <HI>Ea&s;t-India</HI> Company's <HI>Salt-petre</HI> &s;hould arive &s;afe, the &s;ame mu&s;t be kept for Their Maje&s;ties u&s;e, and the poor Trade&s;men mu&s;t be forced to buy of them at their extravagant Prizes; which the pa&s;&s;ing the &s;aid Bill will prevent.</P>
<P>The <HI>Refiners, Gla&s;s-makers,</HI> and <HI>Dyers,</HI> do attend, and are ready to make out, to the full &s;atisfaction of this mo&s;t Honourable Hou&s;e,</P>
<P>That without <HI>Salt-petre,</HI> the &s;aid Trades cannot be carried on.</P>
<P>That in the&s;e Trades, upwards of 300 Tons is yearly expended.</P>
<P>That if <HI>Salt-petre</HI> bears the intollerable high Price it now doth and hath done, for a long time pa&s;t, the &s;aid Trade&s;men and their Families mu&s;t in|evitably be ruined.</P>
<P>For by the dearne&s;s of <HI>Salt-petre</HI> in <HI>England,</HI> Scarlet and <HI>Bow</HI> Dyers cannot Dye &s;o cheap as the <HI>Dutch,</HI> therefore Merchants &s;end Cloths to <HI>Holland</HI> to be Dyed. And they al&s;o have a great Advantage of us, by Dy|ing their own Cloths cheap for the <HI>Turkey</HI> Trade, to the prejudice of the Woollen Manufacture of this Nation.</P>
<P>For the &s;ame Rea&s;on the <HI>Refiners</HI> are forced to &s;end their Silver to <HI>Hol|land</HI> to be &s;eparated.</P>
<P>And for the like Rea&s;on the <HI>Gla&s;s-makers</HI> cannot make Gla&s;s to &s;ell at Rea|&s;onable Rates, as formerly, by which the Nation &s;uffers in general.</P>
<P>By the&s;e Advantages the <HI>Dutch</HI> are enrich'd, and the poor Trade&s;men impoveri&s;h'd. As al&s;o the Gunpowder-makers, Merchants, and Ma&s;ters of Ships; for when <HI>Salt-petre</HI> was cheap in <HI>England,</HI> there was upwards of 900 Tuns u&s;ed yearly, for Gunpowder to Export, be&s;ides what Their Ma|je&s;ties and the Trade&s;men expended.</P>
<P>But by rea&s;on of the dearne&s;s of <HI>Salt-petre</HI> now in <HI>England,</HI> we lo&s;e the benefit of manufacturing &s;o much <HI>Salt-petre</HI> yearly, which will make 1200 Tons of Gunpowder, and al&s;o lo&s;e the Exporting of the &s;aid 1200 Tons of Gunpowder. And <HI>Ireland,</HI> and our Plantations in the <HI>We&s;t Indies,</HI> cannot be &s;upplyed by us, when Gunpouder is above 5 <HI>l.</HI> the Barrel; for by Law it cannot be then Exported. And at the Price <HI>Salt-petre</HI> now bears, and hath done for a long time pa&s;t, Gunpouder cannot be made under 6 <HI>l.</HI> the Barrel; but the <HI>Dutch</HI> find ways to &s;upply them.</P>
<P>And whereas the <HI>Ea&s;t-India</HI> Company, in their Petition to this mo&s;t Ho|nourable Hou&s;e, de&s;ire, if leave be given to Import <HI>Salt-petre,</HI> it may be to them only. If &s;o, they may choo&s;e if they will Import any or no: And &s;o do, as has been done, make no publick Sale for three or four Years together, but impo&s;e upon the Trade&s;men, by Selling by private Contracts.</P>
<P>And it is not yet certain, whether they &s;hall continue a Company or no.</P>
<P>Their Ca&s;e is mo&s;t humbly recommended to the Compa&s;&s;ion of this mo&s;t Honourable Hou&s;e.</P>
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<P><HI>REASONS</HI> Mo&s;t humbly offer'd by the poor Trade&s;men, For pa&s;&s;ing the Salt-petre Bill.</P>
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