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Commissioners and the public.
Aldermen Warriewatte said, that the removal of the Corn.
missiunrrs of Bankrupt from Guildhall would he highly in-
convenient—many Citizens of London were obliged to attend
In prove a sli lo of 20/. the dividends on which, he said,
amounted to but a few shilling'. He complained of the slum-
ber of the Crimmisioners (seventy-two) as bring by far ton
many; and said, that in insolvent cases • Judge was
Deemed sufficient so decide on large property. The 00000 iber
•f meetings of Commissioners held at one and the same tone
(ftinetinitv amounting to no lees Shun from eight to tea, and
even to t twenty) was found, he said, highly inconvenient, and
be hoped that in this case some arrangement would be
made. As to removing the Commission►rs from Guildhall, it
would be highly inconvenient and unnecessary; the re was a
■pot of srmind Raj ' g whirls would answer the
intended purpose of the Hon. Gentleman, and *mold render
it unnecessary to remove the sent of the Coolollsaiiiisera to
riiriiivarn Inn, a place highly inconvenient, as by far the
greater number of persons who come before the COlllll4jS.
siontre lived in the City.
Mr. D. W. HanervT spoke against the present conatitiiiiiin
of the Commisnimiers of Bankrupt—it was one, he said,
highly inconvenient—and, iii his minion, until they were
made independent Judges, and the it attention rankly directed
/0 bankrupt affairs instead of bring, as they now are,
practising Barristers, the public business could nut be at-
tended to.
r. ‘Vtt.sots recommended She withdrawing of the motion.
Mr. ELLIS oltntruart Itlie IIaICUI sit the Bankrupt 11.8*9 an
a isitiossire to the country
Mr. Cut:RTF.NAT raid there was no 41i/femme of opinion
31% to the propriety of enlarging the neersmmoilation sit the
Cornmeal, 111 l ers. He thuseght she other CUllbilleralioll was fit
fur she Committee.
The strangers were ordered to withdraw, when the House
divided—

Ayes .
Nuts

Maj,nily
Mr. FIARTFY postpuued his mutiuu rropectiug Excice
Tn-
formaiioas.

MOCK AI7('TION9.
Mr. Alderman WargitstAN, in moving for an account of
Auction Licenses and Duties collected from 1811 to 1919,
complained of the many (rale& that had been commuted iu
the way of Mock AtICil.)111, and the injury they slid In the
fair trader. He said he feared that if a Bill son the subject
were trot soma), tett by Ministers, it would not be likely to
succeed, oust Ise hoped that the Rieht Hon. Gentleman (the
Chancellor of the Exchequer) would declare his os ) )) ion on
the subject.
The CHANCELLOR of the Excurqualt said, he would be
happy to give his support to any necessary measure, pro.
voted that there was no injury done to the Revenue. He
could nut approve of the introduct 1111 l of the intruded Rill,
because it might lend to decrease the Revenue and to create
a tritompuly
Alderman AVAITHWAII said that the Bill, as at present
hams il, could have nu such tendeucy.—The mutton was
agreed to.
Alderman WATCHMAN then moved for the Names of
Atr.a. us hmovens Debtors' Court, whether rresilar Attor-
neys, and whether any of them have taken benefit of the In-
solvent Arts; Accounts of Fees 'emitted for their apt I.
ment, and otherwise; and Account of persons committed
to prison for Debt, from 1797 to 1819.—Agrecd to.