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attend in the room on those ballot days on which any 

 sum of money was to be voted, or on which an election 

 of officers was to take place, so that it might be 

 certified who were incapacitated from voting by reason 

 of their being in arrear. Any such persons were to 

 leave the room, or pay the amount due. 



The Society at this time was engaged in forward- 

 ing the interests of the cotton manufacture. A sum 

 of ^35 was paid to Robert Brooke, which had been 

 expended by him in bringing over artisans from England 

 for carrying it on; which sum, with ^53, 6s. granted 

 to him on the yth of September for bringing over 

 thirteen persons, was for twenty persons out of thirty- 

 nine voted for. Subsequent payments were made for 

 the full number. The Hon. Baron Hamilton also 

 presented a memorial, stating that he had established 

 a cotton manufacture at Balbriggan, and asking aid for 

 bringing over six persons from England, skilled in 

 this branch of industry, which was agreed to. 



