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fore the Court at the next Quarter Sessions.—
Dated this 12th day of November, in the 1828.
(Signed)
W. J. DENISON, W. CRAWFORD,
HENRY GOSSE, ROBERT HEDGER,
JAMESDETEISSIER, WM. NOTTIDGE.
JOHN WOOLLEY,
Now, upon hearing the said Report read, and
upon full consideration had thereon, it is or-
dered by this Court, that the said Report be,
and the same is hereby ratified and confirmed ;
and that several matters and things therein stated
to have been ordered arid done by the said Com-
mittee be, and the same are hereby adopted,
ratified) and confirmed.
By the Court,

LAWSON.

SURREY, TO WIT.
At the General Quarter Session of the Peace
of our Sovereign Lord the King, holden at
Guilford in and for the County of Surrey, on
Tuesday, the 14th day of July, 1829.
To his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of
Surrey, in General Quarter Session assembled.
Whereas, at the General Quarter Session
holden in and for this County, John Scriven,
Serjeant at Law, Wm. Joseph Denison, Charles
Nicholas Pallmer, George Holme Sumner,
Henry Drummond, William Crawford, Robert
Hedger, George Arbuthnot, Henry Gosse,
Thos. Coles, Wm. Speer, John Spicer, James
De Teissier, Thus. Lett, Wm. Nottidge, and
John Woolley, Esqrs. were appointed a Commit-
tee for the purpose of considering of the best
means of carrying into execution two Acts of
Parliament—the one passed in the 47th year of
his late Majesty's reign, for regulating the Vend
and Delivery of Coals in certain parts of the
Counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, and
Essex, and in the Cities of London and West-
minster ; and the other passed in the 9th year of
his present Majesty's reign, to enable his Ma-
jesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of
Surrey to appoint two or more persons to be
principal Land Coal Meters for the several
parishes and places therein mentioned, and also
for the purpose of framing Bye Laws, Rules,
and Regulations, for the better regulating the
offices of Principal and Labouring Land Coal
Meters : Now we, whose names are hereunto
subscribed, being five of the said Committee, do
report, that we have held several meetings, and
examined into the conduct of the Principal and
Labouring Land Coal Meters. That at one of
those meetings we received a memorial or-com-
plaint from Messrs. Horne, of the Falcon
Wharf, Blackfriars-bridge, stating that a vessel
containing 150 hogsheads of coals shipped by
them, was detained in the West India Docks by
the searchers belonging to the Custom House,
in consequence of some representation from Mr.
Turquand, one of the principal Meters ; where-
upon we examined into the circumstances of this
transaction, when Mr. Turquand stated to us
the following facts :—That he had been applied
to by the searchers to re-measure these coals
which are the same coals that are mentioned in
the last Report to have been shipped in hogs-
heads, filled in the roads under the superintend-
ance of a City Meter, Messrs. Horne having de-
clined the attendance of a Surrey Meter; that
be attended with Ives Elverson, a labouring
Meter, and re-measured three hogsheads, when
it appeared that they contained on an average
only twenty bushels each, whereas the entry at
the Custom House was twenty-one bushels each ;
that after this a City Meter was called in and
re-measured three other hogsheads, and found
them half a bushel deficient ; that in consequence
of this difference the searcher then applied to
the Westminster Meters, who, in the presence of
Messrs. Horne, but not of any of the Surrey
Meters, re-measured ten hogsheads, and found
upon the whole a surplus of two and a half
bushels. Mr. Turquand further stated, that
Thomas Smith, an under-searcher, declared to
him that he never saw stricter justice done than
in the re-measurement by Ives Elverson in the
first instance, and both Smith and the principal
searcher declared that they had great difficulty
in making the fillers do their work, and had
even been obliged to make them measure one
hogshead a second time, and that they bad
broken the large coals, thereby making them
measure more in quantity. Under these circum-
stances, and no person attending on the part of
Messrs Home, we came to a resolution that Mr.
Turquand was fully warranted in what he had
done.
And we further report, that Mr. Turquand
has stated to us that George Ballin, of Bank
End Wharf (who is mentioned in the last Re-
port to have delivered a quantity of coals defi-
cient in measure), was summoned to Guildhall
on the 2d of May, when the short measure was
admitted, but it was contended that the coals
were sold by pool measure, and that the Act did
not authorize the re-measurement of coals sold
by pool measure, after more than one sack had
been shot, which had been done in this case ;
and the witnesses not being able to prove that
the tickets produced were the identical tickets
delivered by the Vendor, Mr. Alderman Ans-
ley, the Magistrate who presided, dismissed the
complaint.
Mr. Turquand has further reported to us, that
Marmaduke Thompson, of Upper Thames-
street (who is mentioned in the last Report to
have refused to re-measure a quantity of coals
sold by pool measure, after more than one sack
bad been shot, and to have driven away his
waggon, for which lie was summoned to Union-
hail, when Mr. Chambers refused to hear the
complaint on summons), was again summoned
to Union-hall for the same offence, when the
complaint was dismissed on the same ground as
in the last case—that the coals were sold by
pool measure, and could not be re-measured after
more than one sack had been shot. He was
also charged with not having delivered a ven-
dor's ticket before the coals were shot. This
last complaint was dismissed on the ground that
the A.ct directing that the tickets should be
given to the purchaser, or his servant, it was not
proved that the ticket might not have been pre-
viously delivered to the purchaser, although he
was not on the premises when the coals were
delivered, and although a ticket was given to
the servant several hours after the coals were de-
livered, but not till after the non-delivery of the
ticket was mentioned to the vendor's clerk.—
Some other charges which were affected by this.
latter decision were withdrawn,
Mr. Turquand has also reported to us, that Mr.
John Jackson, a wharfinger and dealer in cans
at Dockhead (who is mentioned in the last Re-
port to have refused to produce the ship's cer-
tificate of a quantity of coals loaded by him, in
consequence of which the meter declined signing
his ticket, and the coals were delivered without
any ticket, for which he was summoned to Union
Ball on the 21st April; but Mr. Chambers de-
clined to hear the complaint on summons), was
convicted on the 30;11 April of the same offence,
and tined 1 N., and pleaded guilty to two similar
charges, wit.'; fined one shilling on each with