Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-02 00:00:00

THE BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS,

The usual monthly meeting of this board was held last
night, at the Public-offices, Hamilton-square, Birkenhead.
Mr. J. Laird presided. The other members present
were—Messrs. Willoughby, M'Gill, Bailiff, Bayliss,
M'Whirter, Bell, Goulborne, Bradley, Verelst, Hard-
man, Hind, Keightley, and Harrison.
. . _

The Clerk read the minutes of the last meeting, which
were confirmed.

LIGHTING AND WATCHING COMMITTEE

On the motion of Mr. Goulborne, the proceedings of
this committee were read and confirmed, without comment.

TILE MARKET COMMITTEE

The proceedings of this committee were also read
without comment, on the motion of Mr. M‘Whirter.

THE HEALTH COMMITTEE

The proceedings of this committee reported that the
chemical works in the Railway-yard, Waterloo-place, had
been complained of, the stench from which had at times
reached Hamilton-square ; the law clerk had been
instructed, to write to the proprietors on the subject.
The number of deaths reported were 46, twelve of which
had been from Zymotic diseases.
Mr. Bradley moved the confirmation of the proceed-
ings, which was confirmed.

ROAD AND IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEI

The proceedings of this committee contained an applica-
tion from the Cheshire Junction Railway Company to permit
the widening of the bridge on the east side, sufficient to
the laying of another line of rails, it was resolved that
the bridge should be widened, and that the 'arch should
be substituted by girders, but so as not to interfere with
the present abutments.
Mr. Cook, in moving the adoption of the proceedings of
this committee, Said, he begged to call the attention of
the board to the portion of the proceedings which related
to the flagging of the township: The commissioners had
had the power of doing this before, but had not put it
in force until very lately, as many of the
houses in the township had been unoccupied
There was no doubt but that. it would be a great im-
provement, for hitherto the streets had been so very bad,
that there had been frequent complaints. The have,
therefore, called upon the owners and the ratepayers to
flag the streets, and there could not be the least doubt
but that the flagging of the streets would be a great
improvement. (Hear, hear.) If such was done, he (lid
think that there would not be any such complaints in
future.
The proceedings were then confirmed, without any
further comment.

FINANCE COMMITTEE

It appeared from the proceedings of this committee that
the law-clerk had been instructed to write to Mr.
Hartley, the engineer, to inform him that the
committee were of opinion that in the working of the
ferry they would require that portion of the landing-
stage to be dedicated to the committee to be of the same
height as the present landing-stage at St. George's pier.
It was then resolved that the contractors of the Monk's
ferry should be allowed to no by the Woodside boats,
on showing their tickets; and in reply to an application
from Mr. John Laird, as to whether the commissioners
would part with a piece of land situated between
the Monk's Ferry Hotel and the river wall, it was
resolved, "That in consequence of the boats, during
spring tides being obliged to go on each side of the wall
to land their passengers, the request could not be com-
plied with. It was also resolved that the overseers
of Claughton should be indemnified against any expenses
they might incur in testing the legality of the Claughton
Constabulary rate.
Mr. Keig tle' moved the adoption of the proceedings.
Mr. Bailiff wished to know what steps had been taken.
in regard to the letting or disposing of the Monk,s
it
offered
hotel, upon which, at the suggestion of the chairman,
be
was understood that the entire premises v
by tender.
then moved, that that portion of the
proceedings,
which related to the Claughton police rate
y tien
3r.
dßeia..
should be referred back to the committee. A rather
warm discussion took place on this portion of the pro-
ceedings, and the board divided,
when only three per-
sons supported the amendme_nt; and, upon the chairman
puting the original motion, Mr. Bailiff objected, and com-
plained, that the chairman aid not allow a fair discussion
to take place, and, notwithstanding., the motion was put
and carried, and the proceedings were consequently
neyomcmo
confirmed,
Proceedingse
of interest beyond the receipts, with7ie:ehr re
wereoE :li t. ai na es d n
followsomotn
`For the month of February, 1858, were £1,867 4s. 9
for' 1859, £1,942 15s. 2d:ry,
The receipts from April 24th,1
to the 28th February, were for 1858, 26,689.155. 6d. ;
and for 1859, 425,489 3s. 7d., while the expenditure for