The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-21 00:00:00

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CONTRACTS FOR WHEAT, COCOA,
SOAP, TOBACCO, and PEAS.
Department of the Comptroller for Victualing and Transport
Services, Somerset-place, Dec. 16, 1846.
_ . .

The Commissioners for Execnting the Office of Lord High Admi-
ral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do hereby
give Notice, that on THuRsDAT, the 24th instant, at One o'clock,
they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to
Contract for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling
Stores at DEPTFORD the undermentioned Articles, viz.:—

Quarters
Wheatßed •.• • • . 2000
j White .. • • 1000 1 Half of each in Three weeks, and the
Tons. remainder in Three weeks after-
-100 wards.
301

When to be delivered.

Cocoa • . •.........
Soap (mottled) .. .

AT a MEETING of MEMBERS of the COM-
MON COUNCIL, held at Guildhall, on Saturday, the 19th
of Desember, 1846

WALTER ANSON PEACOCK, Esq., Deputy, in the chair;
Resolved—That the Court of Common Council, consisting of the
Lord Mayor, the Aldermen, and a number of Commoners, annually
chosen by the freemen, Inhabitant householders of this City, have for
ages possessed and exercised the right to originate and pass such
Acts and ordinances as have become necessary from time to time, for
advancing the welfare of the citizens, and improving its municipal
institutions, in unison with the spirit of the age.
. Resolved—That in furtherance of a design to defeat the exercise of
this right, the Court of Aldermen, on Thursday, the 17th lust., pre-
sented a protest against the pasting of an Act for regulating the
qualification of members of the Common Council; and, although
the Lord Mayor and Aldermen had at former Courts concurred in
the orders for the preparation of the Bill, and in its being read a first
and second time, when the third reading of the Bill was moved and
seconded, the Lord Mayor refused to put the question to the Court,
and the Aldermen, after a long discussion, with one exception,
quitted the Court, which was thereby dissolved.
Resolved—That we, the members of the Court of Common Coun-
cil, have reason to believe that it is the determination of the Mayor
and Aldermen to dispute the right of the Cqrporation, in Court of
Common Council assembled, to pass the Bill now before the Court,
mainly because. they are aware that a committee of the Common
Council have, since the introduction of the present Bill, prepared
another to limit the Court of Aldermen in the expenditure of the
public money.

Resolved—That we, the members of the Common Council, then
protested, and now protest, against the proceeding of the said ➢layor
and Aldermen, and on behalf of the citizens of London, resolve to
theist upon the right, through their representatives, to control the
outlay of their funds, that we may ensure their application to public
and useful purposes ; and we resolve, and hereby pledge ourselves to
adopt and enforce all such lawful, just, and reasonable measures as
shall preserve to the citizens of London the right to alter their muni-
cipal institutions to meet the increasing commerce of the City, and in
conformity with the intelligence and wants of the times.

_ .... . _
W. A. PEACOCK, Chairman,

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