Whereas the number of poor in and around this city, is at present great, and every year increasing; and as for want of employment, many of them, especially in the winter, are reduced to great straits therefore, in order to alleviate their wants, by finding them employment, it is proposed to erect a linen manufactory, in or near this city; and for that end the following articles are agreed on, viz (s.n, 1764)
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