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London, England, 1810-03-30 00:00:00

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Mr. Sheriff ATr-K-114S. 141; alewirords, present.
ed a petition, from certain a harlimsers and other.,
freemen of the city, praying that the Coon would
grant their assistance iu opposing the progress of a
Bill, then pending in Parktment, for the formation
of,certain docks. Beferted to the Port Committee
to consider and. report thereon forthwith.
It was inured, " That a petition should be pre.
sented to Parliament, tepiiikit the furtuattoot of err.
taiu wet docks, • at Rotherhithe; and that ►uet,
Members of that Court, as were also Nleinhers if
Park uncut, should be instructed to oppose tt."
Agreed to.

NEW STOCK MARKET.
r. I,li noun GOODE/LH' RE presented a Memorial
from Meeses. Wiustaiilei, and other., concerned m
the holy 1,.;.; and selling of stock, relative to the oleo
S tick Market. It stared, that great inconvenience
b been experienced from the manner iu which
the prevent stock market is comnitnierl, they had
applied for "rod obtained, leave to bring a Bill
into Parliaraliot, for the purpose oft:feeling a pub-
lic market for the buying and sediug of steels
—that Baia Bill was then in a Comtism..., iii
its progress through the Ilonirdrable the House
Lof •Cumnious—that the member* of the pieser.t
• titock Exchange, founded iii 1802, which *as held
in a close room, a here strangers were not admitted,
had petitioned agniust the bill—that by the statute
of Queen Anne, any person desirous of exerciAng
the functions of a stock-broker, in the city of Lou-
don, could only be admitted to pursue bitch cellist;
tinder certain wholesome restrictions, and must tip-
peir per.otolly before the Corporation—that a
; person, named Thomas Flower Ellis, had been ev.
%mined as a sitars* on behalf of the petitioners
against the bill—that the said Ellis was not a
broker, authorised by the Corporation of the city
of London—lust, on inspecting the unmet; sivied
to said petition, many of them appeared not to mire
been broker, regularly admitted, in.-cording to Act
of Parliament—that persons, who were lint fect-
tnen of the city, had been admitted to psrtictlute
in the benefits of the private stock market, slide
freemen were excluded—that, by the incr. a..e of
such improper brokers, the Corporation war- dc-.
flooded of the fees *tieing from the admission .4
regular bloke's, mud the public lost their 'weevily
of having upright and holiest men to transact there
business—that Memorialists 'small at all inni"
permit any person IlUthAtized Ly theCorporstion to
inspect tire Market-4ml, titiohy, praying for thew
supper:.
The Memorial was milcred to the Committee
of City Lauds, to examine slid revert.
A Motion. for a Committee to inqu'rr into if+P
mode of assessing the Constilislated Rate. and le
report on the best issues of equalising the emir.
in the different wards. after a few remarks from
Mr. Minimum, who opposed, and Mr. Jacks and
Mr. S. Dixon, who supported it, woo negatived.
Adjourned.
A Court of Common Council will he held on
Monday, Stel of April, 1010, to,receite Reports.

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