The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-04-20 00:00:00

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T the A-NSli Al, tit:NElen. EsTRY:, held In. SAINT
1711.. N ICH 01. A i'S on TLEsoA v. the 17th day of April,
1838.
The Rev, JONATHAN BROOKS, one of the Rectors, in the

Chair

The Mintites.of the Meetings ,Proceedings, Resolutions, p.pd
Orders of the Select Vestry, and of all Sums received,apptied,
and expenued by their direction, toge'her with a Summary .or
errt of their ACCotints and Transactions since the month, of
Ucl.);),,r last, were laid before
,the Inhabitants, pursuant to Act
of Parliament ; and the Report and Accounts haying bepn
read,

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It was Retotretl.—On the ',lotion of Mr. JosEnt CooPER,
,
seconden by At.: KNAPPXR,
That the Accounts of the ChuichWardens and Select Vestry
now read do pass,
'she undermentioned Officers were then appointed :
Mr. William Hii.on Ch rthward ns
Mr. William Gia.ds,tone u e
Mr. John Kilshaw •
Mr. William Wright Sidesmen,
Mr. Jos.ph Gibbons
Mr. William Rushton
Mr. Wi ham Walthew Overseers.
Mr. George Groom'
Mr' William Roberts 'ChtirChvrardens of St. Penns.
Mr. John Briscoe
Mr. Hobert Kee
Mr. Thomas Stretch Churchwardens of St. John's.

SELECT VESTRY.
Mr. John Kilshaw Mr, Isaac Hutchinson
Mr. William Wright . Mr. John Paton
.. Mr. John H. M‘Guffie • Mr. William Slater.
Mr. Audrew, Watson Mr. R. W. Houghton
Mr. A ugustos Radcliffe Mr. William Foster
• Mr. James Harvey, jun. Mr. Richard Houghton
- Mr. Thomas D. Butler Mr. Francis Maxwell
Mr. John Hand • Mr. William Henderson •
JAlLVViliciawm Mr. Edward Ford
Mr. William Laycork Mr. Thomas Dover.
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Mr. M. D. Lowndes, Vestry-clerk.
Mr. Charles Hart w.is continued Assistant-Overseer; but,
along with the office of Bate-book Clerk, the duties of Treasurer
were assigned to him, amid his salary was fixed at i.:300, and MO
for his. clerk. Mr. Hart to give bond in £3OOO.
Mr. Edward Gray was continued Assistant-Overseer.
Mr. John Evans, Assistant-Overseer.
Mr. JatnekEyketsley' Assistant-Overseer and Secretary.

Mr. JOhn Watthew
Mr. William .Gibson
. MI: Z. B. Houghton
Mr. James Glover '
--Mt. Thomas Ellerton
Mr. Thomas..l,taverishaw J
. Mr. JamesDowdal!, Governor of the Workhouse.
,Mrs. Mary,,Dowdall, Matron.
Resolved,—On the motion of Mr. Overseer WA t_tnEtv, and
carried unanimously, that a gratuity of I:20 be given to lk!rs.
Dowdall, as an acknowledgement for her koolue s and attention
to the orphan children in the WorkhOuse, and. to the aged and
inOrna inmates.

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Assistant-Overieers nrul
Collectors.

Resolved,—That the Rev. Win. Tyner be continued Chaplain
of the Workhouse. •

Pesolved.—,That.Alr. B. Nightingele.,be. continues Surgeon
of the Worklibuse.

Resolved,77That the same stipend be paid to the Rectors. and
Curates as last year.
Resolved,—That a Church-rate of one penny halfpenny in the
pound be laid for the ensuing. year.'
Resolved,—That each ttf the Parish clerks be paid the sum of
£so,.i❑ consideration of their giving up their fees on the bills of
mortality, and circulating theM gratuitously, as, usual.
Resolved,-That £525 be paid' to the Trastees of the Dis-
pensary.
Resolved.—That £2lO be paid to the Treasurer of the
Northern Ijoskiital.
Resotved,-1 hat the thanks, of the Vest!), be given to Dr.
Macrorie, Dr. Goufhwaite, and Mr. Nl‘Culloch, the HonOrary
Physicians and Suegeon of the Workhouse end Fever Ward,
for their valuable services during the past year.
ResOlvett,That £2O be paid to Mrs. Aldersey and Mrs.
Richardson, at the discretion of the Churchwardens' and
Overseers.

Resoli,erl,-'-'r hat £122 101. be allowed to the Rev. John Pul-
ford for the ensuing year, in like manner as last %ear, in con-
sideration of his long and faithful services as Curate to this
Pat ish.

limolved,—That
Mr. Robert Heywood
Mr. John Wilkinson

Mr. Anthony Swainson
Mr. Ishomas Wilson
Mr. Henry Ripley
Mr. John Kilshaw
:Mr. Hardman Earle
Mr. Edward G. Deane
Mr. Bushby
William Husun
Mr. Joseph
Mr. T. D. Butler
Mr. J. H. Turner
Mr. Edward Gibbon
Mr. Robert 111Kee

Mr.. James Aspinall •
Alr.•Adam Hodgson
Mr. Thomas Berry Horsfall
Mr. George Barton Irlam
Mr. Joseph Langton
Mr. John.'BriScue

Mr, John Eastwood
-Mr. Nicholas D. Bold

Mr. Sattidel El ulme

'Air: Francis Haywood

Parker

Mr. J. A. Tirane

be appointed Comthissioners of St. Paul's and St.
,John's
Churcheg;*to Supply the vacancies which tfave'been occasioned
by death.,

-Revolved,-That the Thanks of the Vestry toe given to Mr.
Robert Heywood and Mr. Henry. Ripley, for their effective
*services as Churchwardens during the past year.
Restdved,—That the Thanks of the Vestry be given to the
Overseers-and Select Vestry, for their services during the past
year.
Resolved,-,Thit the Thanks of the Vistry I.e given to Mr.
William Dickson, for his services as Treasurer fur the last 20
years
Resolved,—On the motion of Mr. EnwAnn FORD, seconded
by Mr. 'JOSEPH
That this •Meeting.deeply regret. the, insufficiency of the law
to rate and assesS:the Liyerpoot Dock Estates to I-he relief of
the poor, in commOn with other Property in the Parish. The
Vestry-clerk is, therefore, ordered•and directed•to..aiviy toTar-
liament in the next Session, for an act to render the said Dock
Estates liable to the relief of the poor iR !he same manner and
proportions as other Property within this Parish.
. . JONATHAN BROOKS, chairman.
The Chairman having lett the Chair, • .
Resolved unanimously, Ou Use motion of Mr..CooPEri,
That•the Thahlts of thi'Vestry be given to the Chairman, fur
his able conduct in•the Chair. - • .
• M. D. LOWN DES, Vestry-clerk•

.The following is a Copy of the Report,
.and.brief Abstract of
the Accounts

REPORT, O THE .CHURCHWARDENS AND SELECT, VESTRY,

For the Year ending 25th March, 1839.
Conformably to annual custom, ,the ,Churchwardens and
Select Vestry, in resigning their trust into.the hands of the
Parishioners, have now to submit a brief SUmmary of their
Tratjsacfipns diirink- the year, ‘vhich 'terminated on the 25th
March hist.
FrOm the universal stagnation in trade, not only in this town,
but•generally in the manufactnring nisi ricts: and the consequent
want of employment for labourers andartisans, together with
the extraordinary severity of the late protracted winter, it might
have been expected, and with great r,,4500, that the expenditure
of this parish would have been increased to a very serious
amount. They have, however, the 'gratification of stating to
the Parishioners that, on the whole, the expenditure of the past
year—tray not +eon --so much as that .of the preceding-by
£691 os. Id. This may seem sOmewhat anomalous, after the
circumstances of the season above alluded to, which are known
to have caused an extra demand tin their, resources—,* it is
SitisfaCtorily accounted for from the fact uf their not halving
had to pay this year any part of the County Rate, their contri-
bution to which.last year amounted to the sum of *.:11.6Q193
thus enabling them to meet au increased expenditurP„on
account of the Poor, without being nude!' the necessity of laying
any additional btirden on the Rate•payers.
They now proCeed to review the outlay of the principal depart-
ments of their trust. In the Workhouse department,l he pres-
sUre of, the times and the severity of the season have been the
most seriously felt; and it will be seen, that the weekly average
nuniher of inmates has eXceeded that 0f'1836, by 137 individuals
—;the number being 1804 weekly last year, against 1667 in the
year preceding the consequent increase of expenditure
amounting to £942 9s. 7d. . .
While there has been. an increase in this department, they
hmie to state the'singular fact that, from whatever cause arising,
perhaps,,from the bountiful dispeusations of private
benevolence, the expense of the 'Jut-door department has di.
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ininiSlied, as compared With last year, in the sum of £9B 17s. 7d.
—notwithstanding that; in.the articles of " coffins and Cloth-
ing," the ainount.paid this year is 8751 13s. 2d., against £590
6s. Bd. in 1836.

ing
a:.'nfehrealoumtohyrtii efoCi.6ouurrchlae
late
pmaorttia lalrleyb,in dnhacsesxecqetetednedce of the
that
of
1.836.by.£17G Os. 7d... Lt. has, indeed, been proved, by_ the ex-
perience of the last four years, that the present Rate of one
i
penny in the pound s inadequate to the expenses of this depart-
ment, and the Churchwardens, therefore, propose that, in order
to meet the exigencies of this department, the Rate be laid, at
three-halfpence in the pound for the ensuing year.
It is with some regret that they'haie to state, that the present
Corporation, under the belief that, as o public body, they are,
by virtue of the Municipal Act, exempt (rum Poor's Rate upon
their Estate, have declined payment of the amount for the last
two years, and the question is still pending at law between them
and the Vestry. Should the decision be in favour of the Parish,
the atnoimt, upwards of Four Thousand P,oinds per annum,
would be a valuable accession to the means of the Parishioners,
and would soon be sensibly felt, in the reduction of the Poor's-
rate, by the humbler classes of the Ratepayers. •
The ChurChwardens and Select Vestry, in conclusion, cannot
permit an. opportunity to pass of testifying personally their ap-
probation of the unwearied zeal with which- Mr. Dowdall has
discharged the arduous dtities of his• responsible office during
the past near,—and which, they believe, has been as highly, ap-
preciated by those who are the objects of his attention, as by
themselves who are the approvers of his conduct-; it is with
more than ordinary encomium they would mention the exem-
plary 'care and the matronly effectiou, aiith which Mrs. Dowdall
has attended to the poordeslitute orphans, (359 in number,) who
are,in the Establishment•under her direction,—and they would
'beg !eave to recommend that. a gratuity of twenty guiness,be
.presented to her, as some small mark of the sense they entertain
of het' especial kindness to these poor, and otherwise, unfriended
children.
The Churchwardens and Select Vestry are sorry to have to
notify to the Parishioners that their Treasurer, Mr. Dickson,
from circumstances of a domestic nature, has been under the
necessity of resigning the office which he has held for 20 years;
the tmitter havintz been only received this morning, they are not
at present prepared to recommend a successor to that import-
ant office.

The following is a SUMMARY of the ACCOUNTS.
DR. I s. d.
To balaOce received from Churchwardens 0f1837 1,403 1 9
Rates received
Received from \\roil:house ' 1,455 . 3 5
Received from 111egitiMates' Account
SOndries iiiceived '

£53,0614 3

£ s. d.
Paid on account of the Workhouse
Out Poor 21.203, 2 1
Illegitimate-office
General Management and Incidental Es-
penses
80
Fees to Registrars of Births and Deaths... •
3.070-10 6
Churches
Balance in. Messrs. Leviand and Co.'s Bank
Balance in Treasurer's hands • .49 0 7

£53,066 1,1 3

Liverpool, 24th March, 18.18. -------
Errors exeprd.
JAMES ECK.E.RSLEY,
Secretary to the Select Vestry.
JOHN Kit.stiAW,
JOHN WILKINSON, j- Auditor..
WILLIAM El t;soN, )

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