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Belegstellen. 
House of Commons, praying for leave to bring a Bill into Parliament 
to amend, extend and make more effectual the statute of apprentices 
5. Elizabeth, chapter 4th. — 
That the most effectual preventive against and check upon combina- 
tions of journeymen, as also of masters, in any trade, is for the per- 
sons engaged in such trades, to take apprentices‘ as required by law. 
CC. 
Zu 8. 444, Anmerkung 1. 
Die Weber wollen das Aufkommen der Fabriken 
verhindern. 
Report on the Woollen Manufacture von 1806. 
Resolved unanimously, That it is the opinion of this meeting that 
the domestic system of manufacturing woollen cloth is best adapted to the 
situation and circumstances of these parishes and to the advantage and 
csonvenience of the inhabitants in general. — 
Resolved unanimously, That, in order to preserve and secure the do- 
mestic system of manufacturing woollen cloth, the number of looms, being 
‘he property of any individual person or company to be employed in his 
or their building or buildings, ought to be limited, and not exceed fire. 
Resolved unanimously, That it is the opinion of this meeting that 
for the above mentioned reason (namely, the preservation of the domestic 
system) the number of spinning jennies or other machines used for the 
purposes of spinning, belonging to any person or company to be employed 
in.his or their own building or buildings, ought to be limited, and the num- 
ber of spindles not to exceed one hundred and fifty. — 
Resolved unanimously, That the domestic system is highly favourable 
{o the cultivation of paternal, filial, and fraternal affections, the springs of fa- 
mily-happiness , and the cultivation of good, moral and civil habits, the 
sources of public tranquillity; that the factory system tends to the pre- 
zention of these affections and habits, and leads youth sooner into the 
strongest temptations, by which they are in danger of being corrunted, 
even to their ruin. — 
Resolved unanimously, That, as the Clothiers are a numerous body of 
men, and their trade and employment are their chief, frequently their 
only birth-right and source of support, therefore, they ought to be protected 
and secured to them as the most sacred property. — 
Resolved unanimously, That it is the opinion of this meeting, that, 
though it hatlı, for many years, been the general practice for parents to 
instrucet their own children in the art or mystery of manufacturing wool-