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London, England, 1844-01-13 00:00:00

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CI Place. ,Amount

Contributions t.) the No. of Name.
vario s Dist: lets the Pe_
against t e Num. Viten
b r and Name o
tne Petitioner.
1 .1. Jane I 103 11510xford.st.
W. D..... £l4 10 6 2 W. Smith 2 Greek.st. IC2 2 0

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Resolved. 9th,—.l hat all Reports of the Surveyors be pre-
seined to the Court written In a book, to be called the
Court Book of Surve}ors' Reports, dated and consecutively
numbered, the order of the Court thereon to be added. In the
Court Minute•book, a reference to each Report and the Court's
order be sufficient.

Resolved, lOth,—That the present arrangements for making
a sewers' rate, viz.:—

Ist. By the Vestry-clerks making returns of the persons
mid rentals.
2d. By the Surveyor marking the different districts on
these returns.
3d. By the parochial returns being theneopied ou skins
of parchment.
4th. By attending all the Vestry-clerks' offices with
these skins of parchment, and comparing them with
the Poor-rate book.
sth. By a Jurybeing summoned, who adopt No. 3, and
not the original document.
6th. By the skins of parchment being then 'copied on
sheets of paper figured out and bound.
7th. By the rate being then made up in volumes.
Bth. By an index of No. 1 being then prepared.
9th. By an index of No. 3 being then prepared. •
10th. By an index of No. 7 being then prepared.
Entails an enormous amount of labour, which may be most
satiety and materially diminished.
Resolved, 1 I th,—That it would be of great public advantage
and it is desirable. chat maps be prepared and engraved of each
district, showing the mode by which every tenement is drained ;
and that such district maps be on such a scale as ultimately, and
with all convenient speed, to show every street and tenement
in the district, and its private drainage into the public sewers.
And that every addition, alteration, or diversion of the sewage
be added thereto.
Resolved, 12th,—That as occasion may require for the purpose
of a rate, the portion of each parish in the district be separated
from the map, and with an order in writing be sent to the
various vestry clerks, requesting them to supply the names,
residences, and rentals of all persons rated to the poor within
the limits of such map.
Resolved, 13th.—That the vestry clerks' returns to the
preceding order of Court, under the authority of the 52d
George 111., cap. 49, sec. 7, being a true copy of the rate-book
of the persons assessed to the poor-rate, with the designation
and tental of the property they occupy, together with the map
of the drainage of the district, are the beat documentary evi-
dei.ce the Court of Sewers can supply to the jury touching
two important questions left for their derision and presentment,
viz.:—The property that receives benefit or avoids damage by
the sewage of the district, and the persons who are legally and
judicially recognised as the occupiers of that property.
Resolved, 14th.—That the expense of collecting the sewers'
rate is very great, and that the system of such collection
is most defective ;—that the exclusive occupation of the
collectors 'should be as clerks to the Commission, and their
whole time devLted to the business thereof,—that the
remuneration sh..uld be by fixed salaries, and not by
a per centage, which most unequally pays the collectors,
varying as it does under the existing system from 104 d.
per house to 44d. ; yet in the aggregate entails, taking the
average of the last 5i years, an annual charge upon the rate-
payers of three pounds sixteen shillings and eightpence per hun-
dred pounds collected, or a gross annual sum of one thousand
pounds :—and that the present system of allowing the col-
lec..ors to take away from the office the rate-books, and per-
mitting them to have blank notice papers and blank receipts
to be filled up by themselves, is a very improper mode of col-
lecting public taxation. •
Resolved, 15th,—That the rate-books do always remain
in the office, and be so prepared that every party charged in
sneh rate may, immediately on payment, be thereon discharged.
Resolved, pith,—That the collecting clerks take with
them, on proceeding to collect, books of receipts prepared
in the office, and also a form of daily return, showing
the name of the person, the locality, and the amount
received, to be filled up on the spot; that at the close of
the day's collection the amount tendered by each clerk
be chequed against the stumps of the absent receipts,
such i.tumps to be stamped with a stamp prepared for the
purpose, showing the day each sum was' accounted for, and
that from these daily returns the party charged' on the rate-
book ne discharged.
Resolved, 17114—That public intimation be made that the
rate-books are always at the office, that any party desiring to
pay the rate there may do so, during office hours, and see the
same entered and discharged in the rate-book. And that a
similar return paper to the Collecting-clerks' return be kept,
to be called " The Office Return" of persons who pay their
rates at the office.

Resolved, 18th,—Tbat immediately after the Collecting-
clerks' daily returns, and the office return are exa:nined, the
amount be made up in the following form, and paid to the
Treasurer, and that his account be so prepared and kept as to
show of each day's receipts and payments the various districts,
and the total, in one line, thus .

DA rx. Eastern I Western Counters I
Counters Rane- Bays-1 Sun- I TOTAL
Creek I lagh water' dries I •

Resolved, 19th,—That the book of daily receipts and pay-
ments, the petty cash and general disbursements, be kept on
the same plan.
Resolved 20th,—That at the back of the last folio of each
rate an acce,unt be commenced, and continued to the conclu-
sion of the receipts therefrom, and the expenditure thereof.
Resolved, 2 st,—That the Clerk do appropriate monthly the
petty cash and general disbursements to each district, either in
the proporttun of the rentals, number of assessments,-or other
mode which the Court may think more equitable.
Resolved, 22d,—That the present office hours (from nine to
four o'clock) are too limited for an establishment so purely one
of business as the Office of Sewers, and that ft om nine o'clock
to six o'clock be substituted.

Resolved, 23d,—That under the Chief Clerk there be ap-
pointed Aux Clerks, ene of whom to be particularly qualified to
enter the daily returns, three or four of whom to have a know-
ledge of collecting, and all to be conversant wirh accounts.
Resolved, 24th,—That all the Clerks do find seeurity for the
faithful discharge of the various duties they may be called upon
to perfm ro as Clerks to the Commision.
Resolved, 28th,—That the same system of daily return of
exchange of voucher be ordered as to the accounts between the
Court of Sewers and the various Paving Boards, and that the
sums owing by the Court of Sewers to the parishes be not
suffered to go inarrear.

Res. Wed: 46th,--That, as the sewers' rate is a tax upon the
owners and occupiers of ' property for the improvement of that
property, and to promote the general health and safety of the
i►►habitants of the district upon which it is assessed, it is the
law, as well as the interest of the parties so charged, forthwith
to pay such tax, and that if they neglect so to do, under the
Statutes of Sewers they subject themselves to a fine and an
Exchequer process. And that the greatest publicity be given
to this Resolution.

Resolved 27th,—That any of the present'Bye7laws which
.are
at variance with these Resolutions be repealed.

• ALARMING, FIRES.—At a few minutes after five
o'clock last evening, a fire broke out in the residence of Sir
Wm Curtis, Bart., in Portland-place, Regent's-park. It was
discovered by some persons passing by the mansion, who per-
ceived a great light in the upper part, apparently issuing from
the front room on the fourth floor. The Inmates were imme-
diately apprised of the fact, and on entering the apartment, the
window curtains were found in a blaze, and flames issuing forth
from the wainscote underneath. Water being plentifully sup-
plied to the engines that arrived, the fire was extinguished. It
proved to have originated through a large portion of soot ig-
niting, which had lodged on a ledge in the hall Chinese stove
flue. The damage done is rather considerable, which will fall
on the Phoenix fire-office. In about an hour after the above
fire was got under, another fire broke out in the lower part of
the mansion belonging to the Marquis of Anglesea, in Burling-
.ton-street, Burlington-gardens. Several engines were soon in
attendance, but the firemen were refused admittance, conse-
quently the extent of damage done could not be ascertaied.
ACCIDENT AT TILE WINDSOR TIIEATEE.—Mr.
Otway, " the celebrated tragedian," who has been pet forming
at the Windsor Theatre during the past week, met with a se-
rious accident, arising from the extreme clumsiness of one of
the other performers, in the last scene of Ilamkt, which he
had selected for his benefit on Wednesday evening. In the
struggle for the "poisoned chalice," between Hamlet and Ho-
ratio Mr. Otway, who was performing Hamlet, was carelessly
struck by the wooden stage property upon the forehead, before
he had obtained possession of it, and with such force as to
inflict a deep cut in the immediate region of the temporal ar-
tery. '1 he blood gushed forth in a stream, running down his
I. tam and vest, and it was not until past one o'clock yesterday
morning that the hemorrhage was staunched by Mr. Andrews,
surgeon, of Windsor, who was fortunately soon at hand after
the accident. The house, which was most respectably filled,
was in a state of considerable anxiety to ascertain the result.
Ilia. Otway, who was called for after the play, appeared before
the curtain with a baddage on the wound, and walked across
the stage with considerable difficulty.
PIMLICO IMPROVEMENTS.—There is a new square
being laid out and planted in the Helgrave-road, to be called
1 Wa•wick-square, which will be the most extensive on the
Grosvenor estate. V. Lere the Lock Hospital- formerly stood
there are several splendid mansions. The Whiti Horse- anal
several adjoining houses are to be taken dews' to make a more
il commodious entrance tto the Equeries' entrance into Bucking-
' heat relat.•