The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-14 00:00:00

MUNICIPAL CORPORATION REFORM.

Mr. C. PEARSON then proposed that the resolution with
respect to which the requisition had been presented, should
be rescinded.

The proposiiion. was _supported by Mr. Pewtress, Mr.
Pritchard; Mr. Wire, and Mr. Stevens ; and opposed by
Sir Chapman Marshall, Alderman Winchester, Mr. R. L.
Jones, and Mr. Williams.

The Court then divided, when there appeared—
For Mr. Pearson's motion 72
Against it

Majority —24
Mr. PEARSON then moved that a copy of the resolu-
tions should be transmitted to the Commissioners.
This and other resolutions were ar,reed to.
Mr. PEARSON then moved that the Committee of the
whole Court appointed in 1834 should be dissolved.
This motion was also agreed to.
THE THANKS OF THE COURT TO MR. WM. PRITCHARD.

Mr. WIRE rose to move the thanks of the Court to the
Chairman of the late Committee of the whole Court.
The motion, which was seconded by Mr. R. TAYLOR,
was unanimously agreed to, amidst cheers.
Mr. PRITCHARD expressed in brief; but warm terms, his
deep sense of the flattering and distinguished manner with
which his humble services in the great cause of reform had
been recompensed. His exertions had, he feared he must
say, been overpaid. Mr. Pritchard's address was received
with loud cheers.

COMMITTEE EXPENSES.

Mr. FLETCHER brought up the report of the Revenue
Committee, which was as follows :

" We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, your Corn-
mittee appointed on the 17th day of October, 1834, to in-
quire into the duties, salaries, fees, profits, and emoluments '
of the several officers of the corporation, and also into the
amount of this city's revenue, the various sources from
which it arises, and how and in what manner it is ex-
pended, specifying each item in detail, both at the pre-
sent time in the year 1797, with power to call for all
books, papers, and other documents which we might deem
requisite, and with instructions to report our opinion to this
Honourable Court, whether any, and if any, what reduc-
tion can be made in the several items of expenditure above
referred to, and to whom, on the 16th of December, 1835,
it was referred to consider and report to the Court gene-
rally upon the allowances of the Committees for their ex-
penses, and whether any, and what, regulations or altera-
tions should be made therein, and also on the 24th of
February last to report (inter alia) whether any, and if any,.
what reduction can be made in the allowances to the various
Committees of this Corporation, do certify—
" That the better to enable us to form a correct judg-
ment upon the two last-mentioned references, we directed
the clerks and officers of all the Committees and Commis-
sions of this Corporation, to make returns to us of the
number of members composing each Committee or Com-
mission, the number of meetings held during the years 1833,
1834, and 1835, and the number of sub, select, or special
Committees held during the same period, with the number
of persons attending each of the said meetings, distinguish-
in.- those who were present at the time of meeting, from
thosea who attended during the same ; and also returns of
the sums received by each Committee or Commission during
each of those years, setting forth how the same have been
respectively appropriated or applied ; and having, in con-
sequence thereof; received returns from the Irish Society,
the Commissioners of Sewers, and all the existing Corn-I
mittees of the Corporation, as well as from the Corn-
meters in trust, we proceeded specially to take the same
into consideration, not only with reference to the num-
ber of meetings, and of attendance at each Committee or
COmmission, but also with regard to the nature and ex-
tent of business under the consideration of such Commit-
tee or Commissioners, and finding from the said returns
that allowances to Committees have produced more nume-
rous and punctual attendances, and consequently greater
benefit to the interests placed under their charge, we
are of opinion thiit allowances should be made to the se-
veral Committees and
Commissions appointed bythis Ho-
nourable Court, according to the relative proportion of du-
ties they have to perform, and we recommend the same to
this Honourable Court accordingly. And having there-
upon taken into consideration the proportion of duties of
the respective Committees and Commissioners, and the
amounts proper, in our opinion, to be allowed to each of
them in full, for all their expenses, we recommend this Ho-
nourable Court that the expenditure of the Irish Society,
exclusive of'the charges and
expenses of a deputation to
Ireland, should not exceed 2001.
" That the allowance to the Committee for letting the
City lands should be reduced to 400/. per annum.
" That the allowance to the Committee for letting the
Bridge-house Estates should be reduced to 2001. per annum.
" That the allowance to the Gresham Committee should
be reduced to 25/. per annum.
" That the expenditure of the Com Missioners of Sewers,
Lamps, and Pavements, should not exc( el 300/. per
annum.

" That the allowance to the Coal and Corn and Finance
Committee should be redueed to 2001. per annum, and
" That the allowance to the Committee for General Pur-
poses should be reduced to 2001. per annum.
" That the allowance to the Corn-meters in trust should,
be reduced to .50/. per annum.
" That we, your Committee, upon the same principle,
and with reference to the duties of the other Committees
of the Corporation, are 'of opinion and recommend to this
Honourable Court to make the followingallowances in full.
of all their expenses, viz.:---
The London Bridge Approaches Committee....£3oo per ann
The Blaekfriars Bridge Committee
The Nightly Watch Committee lOO
The Library Committee
The City of London School Committee
And the Markets Committee
" We beg further to'certify, that we directed the Town
Clerk to prepare and lay before us a statement of the allow-
ances which had been made to some of the Committees for
summer excursions, independent of the other allowances for
their expenditure, during the years 1800, 1805, 1811, 1816,'
1818, and 1836, and he having delivered in such statement
accordingly, we proceeded to consider the same, and also
whether any, and if any, what alteration should be made in
the several allowances to Committees for summer excur-
sions, and we are of opinion that no additional allowance
should be made to any Committee for or in respect of a
summer excursion beyond the sums respectively recom-
mended by us to each of the Committees and Commissions
before named, inasmuch as the summer excursions not only
are'extremely expensive in themselves, but involve also the
maintenance of a permanent establishment of a very costly
nature, in the shape of repairs, salaries, &c., and are not
conducted on a principle which tends to produce more punc-
tual or frequent attendance of members to the business and
interests of the Corporation, the only ground upon which
allowances of any kind to Committees can, in our opinion,
be deemed justifiable."
The report was ordered to be printed, and the Court
adjourned.