Prosperous Markets Act 1783
PROSPEROUS MARKETS ACT 1783 | ||
CHAP. XII. | ||
An Act for the issuing Treasury Bills to the Amount therein mentioned, for the Purpose of promoting Manufactures by providing for the Settlement of a Number of industrious Manufacturers at Prosperous in the County of Kildare. | ||
25. G. 3. c. 41. 26 G. 3. c. 42. | ||
to support and employ manufacturers at Profperous; | ||
treasury bills issued to Rob. Brooke for 25000l. | ||
as 3d. per day per cent. | ||
current at treasury 24 June 1794. | ||
WHEREAS Robert Brooke of Prosperous in the county of Kildare, esquire, encouraged by the prospects opened to this kingdom by the enlargement of the trade thereof, embarked extensively in the manufacture of linen and cotton mixed, and hath for the more completely carrying on of the said manufacture introduced and constructed at a considerable expence, a variety of machinery and utensils necessary for the various branches of the said manufacture, and hath furnished employment to a considerable number of persons, whereby a spirit of industry hath been encouraged, and also hath for the habitation of such persons, and for the more conveniently carrying on of the said manufacture, eracted and built the town of Prosperous, a convenient situation in the county of Kildare for firing, provision, and water carriage, and large quantities of the said manufacture in consequence of the said exertions hath been made and sold in this kingdom for home consumption and export to the great benefit of trade and industry: and whereas many industrious manufacturers in and about the city of Dublin, who were unemployed in the business of their respective trades, have been lately encouraged by the said Robert Brooke, to settle in the said town of Prosperous, where he has built a large range of houses and shops for their accommodation, and provides them with all materials and implements for work, and he is daily encouraging all such as are industrious and unemployed to settle likewise there, to the manifest advantage of your Majesty’s industrious subjects: in order therefore to enable the said Robert Brooke to support and employ the said manufacturers lately settled, and such as may hereafter be settled and employed at the said town of Prosperous; be it enacted by the King’s most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal and commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That your Majesty’s vice treasurer or vice treasurers, receiver, or paymaster general, his or their deputy or deputies, do and shall from time to time at the request of the said Robert Brooke, issue treasury bills in like form as those heretofore issued for any sum or sums of money, not exceeding in the whole the sum of twenty five thousand pounds, to bear interest at the rate of three pence by the day for each one hundred pounds from the issuing thereof, and to pass current at the receipt of your Majesty’s treasury, on or after the twenty fourth day of June, which shall be in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety four, the said treasury bills to be delivered to the said Robert Brooke. |