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COMMITTEES APPOINTED.

Stephen Smith.
Robert Stuart.
Abraham Smith.
Samuel Stocks.
John Standing.
Isaac Shimwell.
Charles Tysoe.
John Edward Taylor.
John Whitlow.
John Wilkinson.
Samuel Watts.
William Woodcock.
Absalom Watkin.
George Wilson.
C. J. S. Walker.
T. H. Williams.
Henry Wadkin.
P. F. Willert.
W. B. Watkins.

FINANCE COMMITTEE.

Jas. Kershaw, Treasurer.
Richard Cobden.
Holland Hoole.
Thomas Harbottle.
W. R. Callender.
Henry Rawson.
J. C. Dyer.
Edward Hall.
P. F. Willert.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

Richard Cobden.
Archibald Prentice.
William Rawson.
Edward Hall.
W. R. Callender.
James Chapman.
William Evans.
James Howie.
Waiter Clarke.
George Wilson.
George Dixon.
Peter Eckersley.

PETITION COMMITTEE.

Walter Clarke.
Edward Hall.
Samuel Lowcock.
Archibald Prentice.
Isaac Shimwell.
John Bright, Rochdale.
W. Perkins.
John Ogden.
Matthew Curtis.
John Blakeman.
George Smith.
James Naylor.
J. S. Ormerod.
Henry Rawson.
John Standring.
George Wilson.
Henry Ashworth,Bolton.
Thomas Hopkins.
William Goodier.
Aaron Nodal.
Edward Worthington.
John Gadsby.
James Howie.
J. Groves.
William Lockett.
Wm. Barratt, Newton.

The Executive Committee of the Manchester Association was afterwards elected to be the Executive Committee of the National Anti-Corn-Law League, and continued its almost daily labours during the seven years' agitation. The death of one of its members, and the removal of the residences of several others, made a change in its constitution, and at the close of the contest the acting committee consisted of:—

William Bickham.
Richard Cobden.
W. R. Callender.
William Evans.
Samuel Lees.
Archibald Prentice.
William Rawson.
Henry Rawson.
George Wilson.
Thomas Woolley.