Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-04 00:00:00

HEALTH COMMITTEE.

Mr. BRADLEY moved that the proeeedings be co..firosed.
Mr. MCDONALD asked wh'tber it would ha possible to
titre:lace into tny of the present bills a clause for the
purpose of smoke prevent-or.
Mr. BRADLEY weuld be very happy to j in in any a -
tempt to pr 'mote the cleanliness of the town, but he feared
it could hardly ba dens in the present bill.
The Lsw CLERK said it might be included in the
notices.

The Cirstremer gild it would recoil.° a sprriil bill.
Mr. BAILIFF hoped the committee would not go to that
expense at present.
No resolution was moved, and the proceedings wrra
confirmed.

ROAD AND IMPEL VIMENT COMMITTEE.

This Committee report,d having had ander consideration
the propriety of providing a water cart and weighing ma-
thine for the township, hut in consequence of the present
low state of the fin 'trines, the subject wee deferred,

HIND moved the confirmition of the proceedings,
which nas agreed to.

IFINAN CI COM MITT ZE .

The following report of the board was presented by this
committee:—" Your Finance Committee beg to lay b lore
you the return, as ammuled by old.✓ of your board, ma le
by the various committees, of probable expense for the year
ending 2411 April, 1858, fur maintainitg the different
establishments under their superintendence, together with
a sim;lar report frcm the Ferry Committee, inclut ing an
estimate cf-revenue fano that source. While your corn-
mittee rej ice to aotics a large inereasein the assessed value
of the township property, v'z., £102,265 to 1121..071, they
regret also to remark an increase in the estimates of some
of the de p etments rea-ly onnmensnrate with the increase
of revenue in these eepirtments An ab tract of the
various returns accompanies this report, and shows the
estimated revenue and expenditure under each head of
acceunt in the current year, as compared with the year
ending the 24th of Aprillast. The chief ezatee of increass
in the township txreaditure is explained opposite to each
item in the sb►tract Facets referred to, and to which
reference is, then fore, made. If the estimates now sub-
mitted to the board be reel-sed, both ss regards receipts
end expenditure, the surplus applicable to pigment
of interest to the bondholders at the close of the present
financial year will not Exc,ed from the township rates
£768; ferry, £5 270; together, S 6 038—a conclusion
whi h your committee cannot but view with disappoint-
ment, resulting as it does from an increase of nearly 20 per
cent for the year ending Aerii, 18 -8, upon the assessed
value of property in the township as eomnared with the
assessment f;1 the year ending April, 1857."
Mr, KEIGHTLEY, in moving the confirmation of the
proce.,dings. called the attention of the Commissiotters to
the fact that while tee assessible value bad increased t a
very large extEnt, the expenses had actually increased to a
greater extent. This year, according to the estimates, the
sum availible from the township would he £2OO, or nearly
so, less than was available fr rm the same source last year.
Were it not for the hope that the ferry would come, to
their assistance, the township mould be in a very awkward
predicament. Perhaps some of the difficulties which now
ocen•red might be obviated if the ea imates of the different
Committees, inst. ad of being made up as hitherto in July
or August, when all the expenses had been mainly incurred,
were framed in the month of February each year ;
the committees would then have an opportunity of showing
what money it was propnse to spend. Moreover. as the
election of commissioners took place in June foil twing, the
new coming commissioners might exercise their desire for
economy by looking over the estimates and seeing whether
they cruld tot be reduced. He did not know whether he
woul t be in r•rdcr now if he were to propose that the esti-
mates be made up in the month of February every year
instead of, as hitherto, in June.

The CIuIRMAN said it woul l be better to give a special
notice.

Mr. KILIGUTLK2 said he would, therefore, g7ve no ice of
the subj-ct sp-cially for the next meeting, and move now
the cot:firma im of the prose dings.
Mr. COOKE ask, d for what c mmittee the large extra cx-
penditere had been ificurtei ?
Mr_ Ketotyrtitv said the expenditure of the Improve-
ment Commit'ee was about £1,200 or £1,400 in advance
of last year; the lighting and watching, AAA £l,OOO,
He took that opportut ity of remarking, that there appeared
to be a feeling upon the mirth of tome members that the
expenditure of the different branches of the board was °sly
to Le regul:,ted by the amount of the in3.me, He was
afraid, if h t pricciple were always to prevail, the poor
bondholders woul I not derive as much benefit as they ex-
pected.

Mr. BAILIFF asked what became or the sewerage rate ?
M. 'WORTLEY said it was all merged in the imp•ove-
Lent rate.

Mr. BAILIFF thought that rate 'as net to be eppropriat el
to any nerpose except that for which it was collected.
Mr. KEIGHTLIY said it was applicable, in the first in.
stance, to the proper sewerage and maintenance of the
works, and the surplus was handed over to the road irc-
provessent—in fact to the general funds.
Mr. BAILIFF could not conceive how such a large in-
crease of repairs this lear was nierseaty. Ho was quite
sure that in the Lighting and Watching Committee, not-
wi hstanling the expenditure wh'c'i might be calcu'afed
upon, they would be ably to hand over aorn,..what near £7OO,
if not tbat amount fully. With the works now going on,
it would become absolutely necessary that a greater number
of policemen should be employed than ever had been, and
that a vast number of lamps should be lighted. .Now,
the increase of population was not calculated
to pay for the increase of lighting end watching
necessary to the township. The lighting and
Watching Committee would, th refo:e, find it necessary
to ineleaze the expenditure beyond whxt it had already
et. The chairman of the Finance C )mmit!le avoided
Celli g than what the increased expenditure of that com-
snit,ee was. It struck him that the greatest increase of
expenditure had arisen on that head, and not in the coal
sattteis that had b. en named.
The CHAIRMAN said, to tke best of his rec aectior, the
Finance Commirtee was about the same in expenses as the
preys, us year, and there was a diminution in the Market
Committees expenses of abut £4OO.
Mr. KEIGHTLEY said the only increase in the Finance
Cemmittee's expenses was in the Parliamestary proceed-
ims. This was the heaviest Parliamentary year they had
ever had since the glorious day. when money used to fly
to fast.

Mr. BatmirP.—Can you name the amount?
Mr. KEIGHTLET.—I think about £1,200, not as compared
with last year, but the actual amount.

After we fur her conversation •n the f x pen e, it ure cf
the committees, and !ome explanation 3 Ls to ►arious items,
the proceedings of the cunmittee were corfirtred.

.1.:111tY COMMITTEE.

This committ?e's proceedings included the following
return :

Ferry Receipts for October.
1856. 1857.
£2,336 19s 81. £2,351 Is Ild.
Receipts from 24 h April to 31st October.
1856. 1857.
£15,992 2s 103.
_£16,754 93.

b; minutes al.° stated, that the Okra was directed to
cal a special meeting, in order to c ;n•ider the propriety of
waking an application to the next Quarter Cessions for a
new bye lawpr,hibiting smoking un board the ferry
reeamer..
Mr. KEIGHTLEY in moving the r.dlption of the pro-
ceedi'izs, sugg,s`ed that the great smoking qu-sties hat
bitter s'a-d over until text m nth, is corn uence., f the
absence of the chairman of the c
it'tnr a short conversation, this suggestion was agreed
to.
Some. ra mbers complained of the narrown.ss of the
turntt 1 at the ferry, hut no motion was made upon the
subj
The proceedings were then cm...firmed.