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Gentleman's Magazine 1752 p.420

  marking sheep
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Transactions in the last Session of Parliament; ...
Feb. 3. ...
Several resolutions from the committe [ways and means] to which the several petitions relating to marking sheep with pitch and tar, were referred, being reported, were ordered to be considered on a subsequent day; they were considered accordingly Feb. 14, in a committee of the whole house, and were dropt; petitions having been presented against it from Westmoreland and Yorkshire; and Mr Th-n-n, having fully shewn that the regulations in the bill were quite needless, and would therefore have a bad effect in that part of the kingdom.

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