The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-05 00:00:00

TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS

A special meeting of the Town Council was held on.
Friday, when the customary annual appointments were
made, and the Sanatory Act was brought into operation
by a Committee of Health being named. The Mayor
presided, and said the first business before the Council
was to appoint a trustee under a local act of 9 George IV.
for enabling the trustees of Mrs. Ann Molyneux's Cha-
rities in Liverpool, to grant building leases, and for better
vesting the estates in them, for confirming exchanges, and
other purposes, for the benefit of the charities.

Sir THOMAS BRANCKER proposed his Worship the
Mayor ; the appointment was carried nem. con.
Messrs. Turner, Swainson, and Houghton, jun., were
appointed trustees under the local Act 7 George IV. for
establishing St. James's Cemetery.

Messrs. Turner and Bennett were appointed to execute
the powers given to the Mayor and senior aldermen by
the local Act of 10 George IV. c. 15, relating to the
school for the-indigent blind at Liverpool, and the chapel
attached thereto.

Sir THOMAS BRANCKER rose to propose the commis-
sioners for carrying into execution the local Act of 5
George IV. for the better regulation and encouragement
of pilots for the conducting of ships and vessels into and
out of the port of Liverpool, and the appointment of three
members of the Council, as auditors under the said act.
Mr. COOPER wished to be informed whether the forty-
one gentlemen appointed trustees under the Pilot Act
were ever called upon to act ! He believed their duties
were merely nominal.

Sir THOMAS BRANCKER, in reply, said that in compli-
ance with the Act of Parliament the appointments must
be made. The following gentlemen were appointed:—
Sir Thomas Brancker, Messrs. Ald. James Lawrence, T.
Sands, J. Proctor, J. Bramley-Moore, T. B. Horsfall,
Morris, Stitt, Watson, Aid. R. Houghton, Ald. Bushby,
Swainson, David Hodgson, R. S. Henderson, W. Mann,
B. Hill, J. H. Turner, Cooper, Ald. Griffith's, J. Buck
Lloyd, Atherton, Danson, Ald...Molyneux, Bennett, S.
Holme, T. Boyden, John Holmes, J. Booker, G. H. Law-
rence, C. S. Middleton, Toulmin, Parker, G. G. Hornby,
James Holme, T. Shaw, W. Preston, James Holme, V.
Higgins, T. Lloyd, W. Rathbone, J. Aspinall, and the
Mayor.

Mr. D. Hodgson, the Mayor, and Mr. Thine were ap-
pointed auditors.
Sir T. Brancker, Mr. R. Houghton, jun., and Mr. W.
Atherton were appointed Commissioners for the embank-
ment of the north-west side of Leasowe, in Wallasey
and Great Meols.

Messrs. D. Hodgson, Nicol, and Rathbone, Directors
under the local Act 7 and 8 George IV. c. 35, relating to
the Liverpool and Harrington Waterworks Company.
The following.are the names of the gentlemen appointed
as the Health Committee, under the provisions of the Sa-
natory Act :—Messrs. ames Procter, Atherton, Jas.
Booker, W. Earle, R. Henderson, R. B. Hill, Hugh
Hornby, G. G. Hornby, R. L. Jones, T. Littledale, junr.,
James Parker, C. Robertson, W. Preston, J. A. Tinne,
J. R. Turner, R. Houghton, sen., R. Griffiths, James
Holme, R. Benn, Bushby, V. Higgins, Morris, Stitt,
Bennett, Watson, Cooper, Lace, J. Lloyd, Kaye, Rath-
bone, Read, Toulmin, Stewart, Nicol, T. B. Horsfall,
Shaw, and John Holmes.
The MAYOR said the next consideration was the ap-
pointment of a medical officer and a local surveyor.

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Mr. PARKER had understood that the Town Council
would advertise for a medical officer.

The report of the Sanatory Committee was read. It
stated that the secretary had received sixty-three applica-
tions for the situation of surveyor ; all these had been
examined, and five had been selected as the most eligible.
With respect to the medical appointment, the report
strongly recommended Dr. Duncan.

Mr: PARKER wished to offer a few remarks, before the
report was adopted, relative to the appointment of Dr.
Duncan. He disapproved of what seemed to him very
much like making a place for one particular individual.
Although no one could doubt that Dr. Duncan was a
gentleman eminent in his profession, yet he did not hesi-
tate to say, that there were many gentlemen who had
been for perhaps more than twenty years connected with
the different medical institutions of the town, who were
quite as well informed on the subject of the causes of
disease among the poor as Dr. Duncan, though they
might not have written so much about it.

Air. COOPER had thought that no application of public
money above the sum of £2O could be made, without, if
such application were as salary to a public officer, adver-
tising in the newspapers ; but here an application of £3OO
was to be made without this practice having been ad-
hered to.

The MAYOR asked Mr. Parker if he would put his
objection to the appointment of Dr. Duncan in a specific
shape ?

Ur. NicoL thought that the Council owed it to the
public to appoint Dr..Duncan.—(Hear, hear.)

Mr. PARKER withdrew his objection

The appointment of surveyor was left to the Sanatory
Committee.

LIVERPOOL POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

A FEMALE SWINDLER.—A woman named Bridget
Knocton, (remanded from Thursday,) was charged by va-
rious tradespeople with swindling them out of goods on
false pretences. A number of witnesses were called, all
of whom had been sufferers by her swindling propensities.
She was committed for trial.

RECEIVING A STOLEN BOOB.—On Saturday, a police-
man, of the name of William :Smithson, No. 488, was
brought before Mr. Rushton on a charge of having re-
ceived a book, knowing it to be stolen. The book was a
small one, and was very similar to a lot of books which
Mr. Knipe, of St. James's-street, has on his shop counter.
The prisoner alleged that a sailor had made him a present
of it by way of a Christmas box, and that he was alto-
gether innocent of the theft. The sailor, who was brought
up at the same time, admitted that he had stolen it, but

wanted to have it inferred that he was not accountable
for his actions inasmuch as he had been twice confined in
a lunatic asylum. The policeman, as well as the sailor,
were committed for trial.

ROBBERY.—On Thursday, Henry Lafan, a young man
of highly respectable appearance, and of prepossessing
countenance, was brought before Mr. Rushton, on a
charge of robbery. On Monday night he went into the
Monument Tavern, London-road, and called for ale. He

requested that it might be warmed, and the waiter carried
it off for that purpose. On his return, he discovered that
the young man had gone, and shortly afterwards that the
till had been emptied of all the silver taken that day, ex-
cepting 4s. 10d. As the house had been very-throng, the
sum must have been considerable, but its precise amount
could not be ascertained. Evidence was called to prove
an alibi but it was not satisfactorily established. lle was
committed for trial.

INFORMATION TINDER TME BUILDING ACT. —On
Wednesday an information was heard against Wm.

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not appear. Air. Rushton, the Town
Surveyor, stated that defendants had commenced building
a church on the east side of Great Homer-street, for
Messrs. Horsfall, and without giving notice of their in-
tention to. do so. The walls were improperly built, and
he had given the defendants notice to take them down,
and they were doing so. The defendants had told him
(the surveyor) that they were ignorant 'of any notice
being required, and were taking down the walls in order
that they might be rebuilt in conformity with the require-
ments of the act. The defendants were convicted in the
penalty of 40s. and costs.
AWKWARD MISTAKE OF IDENTITY.-7011 Tuesday,
Charles P. Elsby, one of the late worthy officers of the
Highway Board, was summoned before 'Mr. Rushton,
charged with breaking windows, and other disorderly con-
duct. Mrs. Martha Hill, who lives in the neighbourhood
of Rose-hill, stated that on the night of Monday, thp 14th
December, the defendant came to her house, between ten
and eleven o'clock, and demanded the door to be opened.
She requested to know his business, but instead of de-
claring it, he broke two panes in the parlour window.
He went round to the garden and broke four more, and
then said he had called for £4 taxes. Mr. Elsby totally
denied the charge. He said that at the time alleged he
was present at a meeting of the " First St. Stephen's
Tontine Society," of which he was president for the time
being, and remained in the chair from eight to half-past
eleven o'clock. The complainant said it was nine o'clock
when he first came. She gave him in charge of a police-
man, and he was taken to the station-house in Rose-hill,
where he gave ins name as Charles Hodgson. The bride-
well-keeper said he remembered a policeman bringing a
man there at the time stated, for a disturbance at the
complainant's house, but the defendant was certainly not
him. Mr. Forsyth, the police inspector, said the com-
plainant frequently made charges against persons going
to her house, saying they were calling for taxes ; the pro-
perty was in dispute, and the door was generally kept
locked. It was clear the complainant had mistaken the
offender's identity, and the case was dismissed.