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it is baked, there can be no doubt 

 that a great saving would ensue 

 (jierhaps one tenth or twelfth part 

 of the whole consumption in Lon- 

 don ) if the bakers were prohibited 

 from selling it, until twenty-four 

 hours after it was baked. Your 

 committee are strongly induced to 

 recommend this measure, from the 

 consideration that a very respectable 

 physician has given it as his decided 

 opinion, that new bread is far less 

 wholesome than that which has 

 been baked a certain number of 

 hours; and they think it important 

 to add, that in the opinion of the 

 bakers in the metropolis, no mate- 

 rial inconvenience or detriment to 

 their trade would arise from adopt- 

 ing this regulation. 



Your committee have heard, with 

 very great concern, that from the 

 mistaken application of the charity 

 of individuals, in some parts of the 

 country, flour and bread have been 

 delivered to the poor at a reduced 

 price ; a practice which may con- 

 tribute very considerably to increase 

 the inconveniences arising from the 

 deficiency of the last crop : and 

 they recommend that all cliarity 

 and parochial relief should be given, 

 as far as is practicable, in any other 

 articles except bread, flour, and 

 money, and that the part of it 

 which is necessary for tlie sustenance 

 of tlie i)oor, should be distributed 

 in soups, rice, potatoes, or other 

 substitutes. Your committee are 

 of opinion, that if this regulation 

 was generally adopted, it would 

 not only, in a very great degree, 

 ' contribute to economize at this time 

 the c()nsum))tion of tiunr, but that 

 it might liavo the eflect of gra- 

 dually ititrodiicing Into use, a more 

 wholesome and nutritious species of 



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food than that to which the poor 

 are at present accustomed. 



Your committee think it impor- 

 tant to state, before they conclude, 

 that government, in conformity to 

 the declaration of the chancellor of 

 the exchequer, in the last session of 

 parliament, have abstained from all 

 interference in the purchases of 

 corn in the foreign markets ; and 

 as they conceive the speculations of 

 individuals are more likely to pro- 

 duce an adequate supply of foreign 

 wheat at this crisis, than any other 

 measures that could be adopted, 

 the policy of government in this 

 respect meets with the decided ap- 

 probation of your committee. 



Second Report of the Committee of 

 the House of Covimons, rcsjjeci^ 

 ing Bread, Corn, S^-c. 



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, enti- 

 tuled, "An Act for better regulating 

 the Assize and making of Bread ;" 

 and who were instructed to consider 

 of the most effectual means of re- 

 medying any inconveniences which 

 may arise from the deficiency of the 

 last crop of grain; and empowered 

 to report their proceedings from 

 time to time to the house ; 



Have, since their last report, 

 received additional information re- 

 specting the deficiency of the late 

 crops in many parts of the country, 

 particularly in Scotland; the result 

 of which has impressed your com- 

 mittee with the propriety of sug- 

 gesting such methods as appear to 

 them most likelv to be etFectual for 



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