The Express.
London, England, 1850-11-16 00:00:00

REDUCTION OF PORT DUES AT HULL.

We stated some time since that a conference be-
tween a deputation appointed from each of the three great
corporations of Hull—the D ask Company, the Trinity House,
and the Town Council—would take place, in order that
some indications might be deduced as to the unanimity with
which each of the two last-mentioned was prepared to second
the Doca Company in their proposed redactions, and to
devise, if possible, some practical means of bringing about a
' al reduction of the port dues of Hull. On Wednesday
this conference took place.
The CHAIRMAN of the Dock Company introduced the
subject, and said, that in consequence of the new porta now
rising up in the neighbourhood of Hull, and from the Wilt-
ties given there to shipping, it was absolutely Tammy
that the various public bodies in the town should take step.
to lower the charges levied in the port. The Dock Company
thought of taking 20 per cent. from off the tonnage dues
on ships, and wished to hear whet the Trinity House and
the municipal corporation intended to do.
One of the Dock Company's deputation said that the
amount which that body were taking off would be from
6,0001. to 7,0001, a year, and he thought the other corpora-
time ought to enforce reductions to at least the same amount.
The TOWN CLERK explained very fully the origin of
oorporate dues, and showed that the council could not reduce
these dues adds the town agreed to procure an act of par-
Ramat for the purpose, nor could the corporation apply to
the legislature for • bill, without being authorised by a
militia meeting of the inhabitants.
Mr. FROST thought that, at all events. the plan to be
adopted by the corporation to obtain a legal power for the
reduction of their dues should now be agreed upon.
Mr. WILSON said the Trinity Hoses had not,he thought,
power of themselves to Mum their dues, and they also, he
imagined—altholgh be did not leave • certain impression in.
the samtlag on this point—were in somewhat a 'Boller
position to the town council.
Mr. FROST and others of the Dock Company said it was
Impossible for the employ they represented to expend •
loge enema of sepal in making docks for the accom-
modation of the shipping, and at the same time to take
off suck an amount of dues es would is any great degree
afford relief to the heavily-burdened trade of the port.
The eaepersitioa in the same direction of the other two
tarpeestiens wet asemary to make the proposed reduction;
et all effectual.
Mr. WILSON gave the relative ehergee at Lath sad at
Hall on • ship Ming in cotton for the Baltic, showing that
the sharps to befit peels son pretty nearly equal, the little
differme Ea flamos Lab &in from the fast that the
d km wean s/ Shim at that port.
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showed, by • emperbon Mediaries at Hull tr.=
dembere, the amessity *at oar own should Wilma as fees
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for two boors, to enter Ms a ettlissriptica (tddilkellninhil
contributed to by Individuals ant in their esepsmes ammlty)
be the purpose of giving the assessery legal nodose teinable
the two emporatione, if requisite in the ease of loth, to apply
to pediment for the power of reducing their eberges.

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