USEFUL PROJECTS. 



865 



Easter Sunday, and that lie shall 

 appear in the same before " the 

 Committee for bettering the Condi- 

 tion of Climbing-boys, &c.'' on 

 the Monday following, between 

 the hours of twelve and one o'clock, 

 at the Cutlers' Hall, or some other 

 convenient place, and shall be per- 

 mitted to dine there, or elsewhere, 

 on that day, at the committee's ex- 

 pense. 



8. That we will not, on any oc- 

 casion, lend out our boys to each 

 other, or to any other persons in 

 the trade. 



9. That we do engage, on every 

 Lord's da)% to send our appren- 

 tices and boys employed by us to 

 some Sunday-school approved by 

 the aforesaid committee, and also 

 to divine service with the rest of 

 the children who attend the same 

 school. 



Sheffield, Cutlers' Hall, 



March 11, 1809. 

 Witness, 



Samuel Roberts, 



T. A. Ward, 



G. Bennet, 



W. Younge, 



C. Pukslay, 



J. Montgomery, 



Michael Mellon, his X mark, 



George Rippon, his X mark, 



William Pears, his X mark, 



John Rodgers, 



John Betts. 



The Silver Medal given hy the 

 Society for the Encoumgement 

 of Arts, 8fc. was this Session- 

 voted to the Rev. James Hall, 

 of Chcshunt-ivalk, Wallham- 

 stoto, for preparing foam Bean- 

 stalks a substitute for Hemp. 

 A written Communication was 

 received from him hy the So- 

 VoL. LI. 



ciety -on the Subject, and Sam- 

 ples of the Fibres are preserved 

 in the Society^s Repository. 

 The following are Carti-ficates 

 of Mr. Hall's Statements. 



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Streatham, Surrey, 

 Jaw. 9, 1809,' 

 We, the undersigned, do hereby 

 certify, that the specimens of hemp 

 inclosed and sealed up by us, ad- 

 dressed to Dr. Taylor, secretary 

 to the Society for the Encourage- 

 ment of Arts, Manufactures, and 

 Commerce, Adelphi, Strand, are 

 the produce of common bean- 

 straw : — That we never saw nor 

 heard of bean-hemp till lately; 

 when the Rev. James Hall, who 

 resides here at present, was trying 

 experiments respecting it at Mr. 

 Adams's farm. Mount Nod, and 

 other parts of this parish ; — That, 

 in the present obstructed state of 

 commerce with the continent, it 

 appears to us the discovery of bean- 

 hemp may be extremely useful to 

 the manufacture of canvas, ropes, 

 paper, &c. : — And that, as it af- 

 fords a new and important pro- 

 spect of employment for the poor, 

 we think Mr. Hall, the discoverer, 

 is deserving of the approbation of 

 tlie public. We shall only add, 

 that as the Society for the Encou- 

 ragement of Arts, Manufactures, 

 and Commerce, have contributed 

 so often in a high degree to the ex- 

 ertion of genius, tlie improvement 

 of the arts, and the public good, 

 we have no doubt but they will not 

 only take the proper steps to pro- 

 secute the discovery and encou- 

 rage themanufactuJtof bean-hemp» 

 but also, by some mark of their 

 favour, show their approbation of 

 Mr. Hall's merit in the discovery 

 he has made, as well as of his high 

 3 K public 



