The Sun.
London, England, 1835-07-24 00:00:00

COMMISSION.

WILLIAM THE FOITETII, by the Grace of God, of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King, Defender of the
Faith : To our trusty and well-belove I Charles Shaw Le
fevre, George James Pennington, John Elliott Drinkwoer
and Edward Rushton, Esquires; and to our trusty and well-
beloved Sampson Augustus Rumball, George Barrett Leo-
nard, Daniel Maude, John Buckle, John Aldridge, John
gamma', Harry David Jones, John Watson Pringle, John
James Chapman, Henry Rowland Brandreth, Gustavus du Plat
and William Thomas Denison, Esquires, greeting : Whereas
we have deemed it expedient, with a gracious regard for the
designs to improve the internal government of our cities and
towns corporate, that an inquiry should be made into the pre-
sent metes and bounds of certain Cities, Boroughs, Cirque
Ports, and other Minicipal Corporations in England au('
Wales, With a view to such alterations thereof as may hereafter
be deemed expedient ; Know ye, that we, reposing great trust
and confidence in your zeal, ability, and discretion, have nomi-
nated, constituted, and appointed, and do by these presents
nominate, constitute, and appoint you, the said Charles Shaw
Lefevre, George James Pennington, John Elliott Drinkwater,
and Edward Rushton, to collect, receive, and arrange all in-
formation procured on the local circumstances such of the
Cities, Boroughs, Cinque Ports, and Municipal Corporations
in England and \Vales as shall be named and specified to you
by one of our Principal Secretaries of State, touching the
metes and bounds to be assigned to the same, and finally to
advise upon the same : And we also, reposing great trust and
confidence in your zeal and ability and discretion, have nomi-
nated, constituted, and appointed, and do by these presents
nominate, constitute, and appoint you the said Sampson
Augustus Rumball, George Barrett Lennard, Daniel Maude,
John Buckle, John Aldridge, John Hammill, Harry Dachl
Jones, John Watson Pringle, John James Chapman, Henry
Rowland Brandreth, Gustavus Du Plat, and William Thomas
Denison, to proceed with the utmost despatch, as shall be
• mutually agreed and finally settled by our truly and well-
beloved Charles Shaw Lcfevre, George James Penning-
ton, John Elliott Drinlavater, and Edward Rushton, to
examine into the state of the existing metes and bounds
of the said Cities, Boroughs, Cinque Ports, and Corpo-
rations, and to report to the said Charles Shaw Lefevre,
George James Pennington, John Elliott Drinkwater, and
Edward Rushton on the lines most proper to be adopted for
the new metes and bounds of the same. And by these presents
we do grant to you or any one or more of you, the said Charles
Shaw Lefevre, George James Pennington, John Elliott
Drinkwater, Edward Rushton, Sampson Augustus Rumball,
George Barrett Lennard, Daniel Maude, John Buckle, John
Aldridge, Join Hammill, Harry David Jones, John Watson
Pringle, John James Chapman, Henry Rowland Brandreth,
Gustavus Du Plat, and William Thomas Denison, full power
and authority to call before you, or any one or more of you, such
and so many persons as you shall judge necessary, by whom
you may be the better informed of the truth in the premises.
We do also in like manner give and grant to you, or any one or
more of you, full power and authority to cause all :charters,
rolls, records, deeds, papers, or other writings, touching or con-
cerning the premises, to be brought, or caused to be brought
and produced before you by any person or persons whatsoever
having the custody of the same. And hereby we do charge
and require all our Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs, Mayors, Bai-
liffs, Constables, Officers and Ministers, and all other our loving
Subjects whatsoever, as well within Liberties as without, that
they be assistant to yoU in the execution of these presents.
And our further will and pleasure is, that youdhe said Charles
Shaw Lefevre, George James Pennington, John Elliott
Drinkwater, and Edward Rushton, upon due examination of
the premises, do, and as soon as care reasonably be, within the
space of three calendar months after this our Commission,
certify unto us, under your hands and seals respectively,
concerning the fit metes and bounds to be assigned
unto the said Cities, Boroughs, Cinque Ports, and
Corporations : and whether it is expedient that any of
the said Cities, Boroughs, Cinque Ports and Corporations
should be divided into Wards, and if so, concerning the 6:-
pedient number and extent of the Wards of distinct Divi-
sions, in such Cities, • Boroughs, Cinque Ports and Corpo-
rations. And we hereby direct and appoint that you, or
any one or more of you, may have liberty' to certify
your several proceedings from tima to time. toe us., as the
same shlll be respectively completed and perfected ; and
for your assistance in the due execution of this our Commis-
sion, we have made choice of our trusty and well-beloved
Joseph Parkes, Esquire, to be Secretary and Solicitor to this
our Commission, and to serve and assist you from time to time
as occasion shall require. In witness whereof, we have caused
these our letters to be made patent. Witness ourself, at
Westminster, the fifteenth day of July, in the sixth year of
our reign.

By Writ of Privy Seal,
(Signed) EDMUNDS.

INSTRUCTIONS TO COMMISSIONERS.

Westminster, 21, Great George-street, July 6, 1835.
Sir,—You are directed to fix the Boundaries of the Cities
cr Boroughs in the
panying Map, so as to include all houses in each City, or Bo-
rough Town, and its suburbs.
In the case of a City or Borough having a suburb near, but
not immediately contiguous to it, you will use your own discre-
tion in recommending to the Board Commissioners whether
such suburb shall be included within the Municipal Boun-
daries, regard being ha.l,
' Ist. To the nature of the Population of such suburb, whether
commercial, manufacturing or agricultural.
2d. To the extent and nature of the ground separating such
suburb from the town.

In no instance will it be advisable to include a suburb within
the Municipal Boundaries, without including also the ground
which divides it from the town.

You will adhere to the old Boundaries where practicable,
but where they are too extensive or too limited, you will lay
down other lines adapted to the present circumstances of the
town, observing that the inhabitants included within the Boun-
daries may be subject to the payment of the town rates for police
and other purposes.
Where it shall be necessary to recommend an alteration of
the present Boundaries, you will pay attention to the selection
of parish bounds or such other local limits as may have been
long established.

I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
JOSEPH PARKES, Secretary.
To Messrs. Rumball, Lenuard, Maude, Buckle, Aldridge,
Hamnull, Jones, Pringle, Chapman, Brandreth, Du Plat,
Denison.

Westminster, 21, Great George-street, July 13, 1835.
Gentlemen,—As the Municipal Corporation Bill is now in
so forward a state, so far as relates to the House of Commons,
as to make it probable that no further alteration will be intro-
duced into those Clauses which relate to the division into
Wards, the Board are of opinion that you may now proceed to
visit such places as,, may be warded wherever their geographi-
cal situation or other circumstances make it convenient for you
to do so.

In the accompanying list of large towns on your Circuit
an estimate has been made of the population according to the
census of 1831, within the prescribed limits.
It is believed that scarcely any case will occur in which an
error has been committed in this estimate sufficient to change
the class of the town with reference to the number of wards
indicated in the 35th clause of the Bill, as now amended ;
but in towns which arc near the respective limits of 12,000,
18,000, and 24,000, it must be your first care, before proceed-
ing to fix the wards, to ascertain exactly to which class it
does belong, remembering always to refer to the census of
1831. When exactness cannot be obtained, give the limits
within which the population certainly lies.
You will perceive that in some places you have no discretion
as to the number of wards into which the town is to be di-
vided, the Bill prescribing that if divided at all it is to be
into two (sec accompanying Bill, § 35). In other places,
,where you have a discretion, the Boird leave you to recom-
mend the number you may think best, always preferring a
smaller to a greater number of wards • as, for instance, at
Ipswich, which, according to the inclosed list, may be divided
into any number of wards not exceeding four, the Board would
recommend the Commissioners rather to adopt three wards
than four, unless from local circumstances, of which the Com-
missioners on the spot must be the best judges, they think
four more convenient. So at Yarmouth, where the wards are
to be. not less than four, the Board would recommend four
rather than five wards, if equally convenient.
You will commence your division with the object of making
your wards to contain, as nearly as possible, an equal number
of electors ; but not adhering invariably to this plan, which
may be subject to many modifications from local circumstances,
and particularly from the two following principles, which the
Board wish you to bear in mind : •
1. When a borough contains different districts, some of which
comparatively contain a richer and some a poorer class of in-
habitants, you will not divide them so as to throw the richer
class int# a ward by themselves, and the poorer into another
ward by themselves; but on the contrary you will endea-
vour, as far as is practicable to divide them, so as to have
some of the richer class and some of the poorer in nearly
equal proportions in each ward.
2. You will attend, as you were directed in your General In-
structions, to parish boundLries, rivers, and other clear geo7
gr4uhicil bouridarie;i4 when you rgn eonTePiePtly dt4
You will ascertain as nearly as you Dan tho number of inha-
bited houses, and the amount of rate paid for the: last year in
each proposed ward ; for this purpose you will examine the
overseers' books ; and you will transmit to the Board the num-
ber of houses, and the amount of rate paid for each street, as
well as the aggregate thereof for the whole ward.
The object of this minute information is to facilitate other
iiivi§Ons to case the one recommended at first should not be
nltim4tijir*lvetron, 411 statistical information with
giregt to towns liabie to be diVida into vw4rdS` Useful;
such as the character and appearance of the different quarters

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