The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-07-02 00:00:00

ATHENEUM.

rr HE ANNUAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of
I. the ATHENEUM will be held in the LIBRARY, on
TUESDAY next, the 9th instant, at Eleven o'clock in the
Forenoon.

There will be then submitted a Detailed Statement of the
Income and Expenditure of the Institution from its com-
mencement to the Ist of July, 1838, prepared in accordance
with a Resolution passed at the last Annual Meeting, and
also certain Recommendations founded on this statement.
JACOB FLETCHER, President.

PARISH OF LIVERPOOL,
AT a MEETING of the INHABITANTS assessed and
contributing to the Relief of the Poor within the Town
of Liverpool, held in the Parochial Chapel of our Lady and
Saint Nicholas in the said Town, on THURSDAY the 27th
day of June, 1839, pursuant to notice, duly published ac-
cording to the directions of the act for the better paving and
sewerage of the Town of Liverpool, for the purpose of nomi-
nating and choosing such and so many Commissioners as
would be required to supply the subsisting vacancies in the
number of Commissioners, according to the provisions of the
said act.

The Rev. JONATHAN BROOKS, one of the Rectors, in the
chair.

A Summary or Report of the Receipts and Expenditures
of the Commissioners for the year ending the 24th day of
June, 1839, was laid before the inhabitants as directed by the
act and read.

It being reported to this Meeting, that of the nine Com-
missioners chosen out of the Council of the Borough, there.
were five vacancies occasioned by the disqualification of
Henry Lawrence, Esq., Charles Birch, Esq., and Crawford
Logan, Esq. in consequence of their having ceased to be
111(a1113trill -kits -thl4.ate-,-lAA:Tii,lritinStictiouglitOn,
-Esq.; and that of th3.oth4V: Afteert Commissioners,lthere
were seven vacancies, oceaironed by the disqualification by
non-attendance, of Mr. Ambrose Lace, by the death of Mr.
Samuel Johnson, and by the retirement, in pursuance of the
provisions of the act, of Mr. Robertson Gladstone, Mr. John
Leyland, Mr. James Gill, Mr. Joseph Gibbons, and Mr.
John Kilshaw. _ _

It was moved by Mr. WILLIAM PEAT BUSHBY, seconded
by Mr. SAMUEL HOLME,—That the following gentlemen be
chosen Commissioners, to supp'y the vacancies in the num-
ber to be chosen out of the Council, viz.

Mr. David Hodgson in the place of Mr. C. Birch, disqualified.
Mr. John Nelson Wood „ Mr. Henry Lawrence, „
Mr. Robertson Gladstone „ Mr. Crawford Logan, „
Mr. James Lawrence re-elected.
Mr. Richard Houghton
The motion being put and carried, the above-named gen-
tlemen were declared duly elected.
It was moved by Mr. WILLIAM PEAT BUSHBY, seconded
by Mr. SAMUEL HOLMII, the following gentlemen be chosen
Commissioners to supply the vacancies in the number to be
chosen out of the Rate-payers, viz.
Mr. Wm. Wright in the place of Mr. Saml. Johnson, deceased.
Mr. Wm. Guyton ~ Mr. A. Lace, disqualified.
Mr. Henry Lawrence „ Mr. R. Gladstone, retired.
Mr. John Leyland re-elected.
Mr. James Gill

Joseph_Gibbons

Mr. John Kilshaw

It was moved as an amendment 'by Mr. JOHN CLARKE,
seconded by Mr. Jour: PARRY,—That Mr. Thos. Leicester,
Mr. James Mellor, Mr. Francis Lee Jones, and Mr. Lloyd
Rayner, be chosen Commissioners, in the place of Mr. Saml.
Johnson, Mr. Ambrose Lace, Mr. Robertson Gladstone,
and Mr. John Leyland, instead of Mr. Wright, Mr. Guyton,
Mr. Lawrence, and Mr. Leyland, before proposed.
The amendment and motion having been proposed from
the chair—the motion was earried ; and thereupon the seven
gentlemen therein named were duly elected.
JONATHAN BROOKS,
Chairman.

The Chairman having left the chair,
Resolved, on the motion of Mr. JoHN HOLMES,—That
the thanks of this meeting be presented to the Rev. Rector
Brooks, for his impartial conduct in the chair.
EDWARD G. DEANE,
Clerk to the Commissioners.