The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-08 00:00:00

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I am instructed on behalf of this Board to give you notice,
that the portion of the Great. Float, adjoining the Birkenhead
Dock Warehouses, and now used as a dock to such warehouses,
will, under the terms of the Acts of Parliament for the construc-
tion of the Birkenhead Dock Works, be necessarily run dry on or
about the. ' next, whereby all water access to or from
such warehouses will be interrupted, and such interruption will
or may continue for six months or upwards after so running such
dock dry. It will he necessary, therefore, in such state of things
that any goods belonging to you now stored in such warehouses,
which you may desire to remove therefrom by water carriage
shall be so removed before the said next; and' am
further to give you notice that, with respect to any goods
which you may not so remove you will not be entitled to claim
any compensation or allowance in respect of-any damage, loss,
cost, or inconvenience which you may Sustain by being deprived
of such water access, or consequent thereupon in any wise.
And you are hereby reqaired to onvey the purport of this
notice to all persons to whom you may sell or assign any of the
goods now stored by you in the said warehouses.
BIRKENHEAD DOCKS.
I request permission for my ship
to enter, the Dock; but I do so with full knowledge
on the part of myself and my owners, that the dock is (of
necessity) at present in a defective state of repair and subject
to much leakage; and that if from the latter, or, any other
cause, my ship shall ground, in the dock, and receive damage
either as to her hull or cargo, such damage is to be at the sole
risk of her owners, and that they are to indemnify the board
from all'consequences.

Mr. LArmi stated that when he first brought forward

this subjecthe had said that the resolution and the indem-
nity were totally at variance with each other. He now

found that he was correct in saying so, as there was no
distinct resolution authorising this indemnity to be
taken. It had been said that the indemnity was asked
for on the suggestion of the engineer; but he thought
that in an important matter like this they should not he
guided by a servant of the trust, but should have
brought it fully before the Board. In taking the course
he had done, he was solely influenced by a desire to lay
the full facts before the Board.

The CHAIRMAN said it was no doubt an oversight of
the Harbour and Docks Committee that the matter of
the second indemnity 'was not entered on the minutes,
but he did not think there could be any difference of
opinion as to the necessity for this indemnity being asked
for.

INIT. LOCKETT understood the Docks and Quays
Committee considered the single notice was quite
sufficient.

The CHAIRMAN suggested that the better mode of
correcting the error would be, to put a resolution in the

minutes.

Mr. GRAVES objected to this course. If a resolution
was proposed, he perhaps might have occasion to object
to it.

The matter was therefore left in the hands of the
Docks and Quays Committee.
This concluded the public business.

Most of the masons and labourers on the great works
in Halifax arc " standing 04."

THE DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1860.