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to sign a requisition for a meeting of the Nine Trades
to consider of the propriety of petitioning the Legislature
for a reform in the representation of the country
and other abuses – if any two of the other Deacons
join him in signing such requisition – at same
time the quarter accounts were collected
Willm Young

Dundee 10th March 1817
A Meeting of the Trade being Regularly called
it was laid before them a Plan of the Proposed
Regulations for the Lunatic Asylum, and like-
wise an Amendment of said Regulations which
said Amendment was agreed to by the Trade
and their Deacon instructed to support the same
Willm Young

Dundee 14th March 1817
A Meeting of the trade being called by Deacon
Young he stated that seven of the trades had authorised
their Deacons to sign an address to the Prince Regent on
his late escape, brought forward by Thomas Ivory. The trade
resolved that their Deacon should not sign that address
in name of the trade – and adhered to the one they
voted for formerly proposed by Robert Mudie
Willm Young