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fore them what has passed since the last meeting
of these Trades and to receive instructions as to farther
procedure The Committee unanimously voted
their thanks to Wm Lindsay Esq the Preses for
the particular trouble taken in procuring these letters
and his conduct in the Chair.

(Signed) Willm Lindsay Preses

Dundee 2 August 1819
At a meeting of the Incorporated Trade
of Tailors – held in their Hall this day to
receive the Report of the Committee appointed by
them and the Shoemaker Trade, to enquire into the claim
made by certain individuals to exercise their Trades
in Dundee in virtue of Privileges said to belong
to them as having belonged to Corps of Local Militia

The Committee reported as follows –
That they had taken into their consideration the
several clauses in the different Acts of Parliament
relative to Militia Corps and the privileges conferred
on persons serving in such Corps, and that they
had also applied for information at Edinburgh and
Glasgow from which places especially the former
they had received such opinion and advice, that they
were unanimously agreed, – That the persons
claiming these privileges were not entitled to them
inasmuch as the clauses under which their privileges
were claimed were not at all applicable to them or the
Corps to which they belonged, and they were there
fore of opinion that it was unnecessary to incur further
expence in taking more advice in the subject and they
recommended