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Present Wm Kirkland Thomas Key
Peter Dron James Keith Shoemakers

The Committee took into consideration the
clauses in the different Act relative to the ~persons~
priveleges claimed by the persons wishing to
exercise their trades without being regularly admitted
from which they were clearly of opinion that such
priveleges could only be claimed when the Corps had
been actually embodied and called out into actual
service but before proceeding to take any steps
the Preses having intimated that he could write to
Edinburgh and Glasgow for full information
upon the point the Meeting agreed to defer further
procedure intil such confirmation was obtained
and laid before them
(Signed) Wm Lindsay Preses

Meeting of the Joint Committee
of the Tailor and Shoemaker incorporations Held
in the Shoemakers ~Hall~ Room in the Trades Hall
the 30 day of July 1819 relative to the priveleges
claimed under the Local Militia Act
Present
William Lindsay Esq Preses
Deacon Malcom Deacon Rodger Deacon Young
William Matthewson William Kirkland Peter Dron &
James Keith

The Preses produced two letters before
the Committee one from William Inglis Esq
and another from Mr James Watson Glasgow
of ~the~ which the following is a Copy

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