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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1800. 



An Estimate of the Erpenses of Housekeeping, between I773 and 1800, 

 By an Inhabitant of Bury St.Edmimd's. 



Report of the Committee of the 

 House of Commons respecting 

 Bread, Corn, Sfc. <!jr. 



The committee appointed to con- 

 sider of means for rendering more 

 effectual the provisions of an act, 

 made in the thirteenth year of the 

 reign of his present Majesty, inti- 

 tuled, "An Act for better regula- 

 ting the Assize and making of 

 Bread;" and who were instructed 

 to consider of the most effectual 

 means of remedying any inconveni- 

 ences which may arise from the de- 

 ficiency of the last crop of grain ; and 

 empowered to report their proceed- 

 ings, from time to time, to the house: 



Have proceeded, in pursuance of 

 the orders of tie house, to consider 

 of the provisions of the said act; 

 and are decidedly of opinion, that 

 the act in its present state is com- 

 pletely ineffectual for the purposes 

 for which it was intended ; that the 

 regulations contained in it are in 



many respects defective; and that 

 the execution of it would be totally 

 incompatible with the present mode 

 of setting the assize of bread by law, 

 and v;ould answer no object, unless, 

 at the time when bakers are prohi- 

 bited from making, according to the 

 demand of their customers, different 

 kinds of bread, millers should be 

 prohibited from manufacturing dif- 

 ferent sorts of flour. 



Your committee proceeded next 

 to consider, how far it might be 

 proper to recommend to the house 

 to adopt such farther regulations 

 and restrictions; and as they under- 

 stood a prejudice existed in some 

 parts of the country against any 

 coarser sort of bread than that which 

 is at present known by the name of 

 the " Fine Household Bread," on 

 the ground that the former was less 

 wholesome and nutritious than the 

 latter, they thought it important to 

 obtain the opinions of some emi- 

 nent and respectable physicians on 



