The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-17 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

for which he received a cheque, signed by the pay clerk,
and which in a day or two afterwards was paid in notes or
gold. Various other tradesmen of the town were in the
habit also of sending copper and silver to the office of the
Select Vestry, for the purpose of its being paid away to
the paupers applying for relief ; and the note indicating
the amount sent was sometimes directed to the vestry,
and sometimes to the pay clerk. At the parish-office
they had a place up stairs into which these heavy
amounts of silver and copper were hoisted by means
of a windlass, and where it was counted and made
ready for distribution to the poor. From time to time,
cheques for the amounts received were drawn and
given in repayment to the tradesmen who had given
the accommodation. Mr. Blanchard had, in this way,
given accommodation to the parish for a great num-

-her of years, and until the first of Mara' 1847, he
had continued to do so with perfect satisfaction to
himself and the (

3metimes he

would

send his notes of the amount to the parish
and sometimes to Mr. Williams the pay clerk ; the
silver and copper would be sent by a cart and horse ; then
Mr. Williams would give a receipt for the money received ;
and one of the parish officers would go to the plaintiff the
next morning, and state the amount of the copper or silver
which was required at the parish-office. Upon the Ist of

March la, r. Blanchard sent £3O in copper and £5O in
silver from one of his shops, and £57 in copper from
another of his shops, and the money so sent was, as usual,
taken at the office, and afterwards hoisted up by the
windlass to the room up stairs, where it was counted.
When Mr. Blanchard sent for his gold or notes a day or
two afterwards, he was told that Mr. Williams had been
taken ill of the 'fever. He got the same answer several
times afterwards, but ultimately, about a fortnight after-
wards, it turned out that Williams was unable to pay at
all, and then it was said to Mr. Blanchar-'

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the acts of those clerks. _ a part of their business
by deputy—they could not do it otherwise ; but answer-
able they must be for the acts of those deputies. If Mr.
'Blanchard had supplied bread tothe parish he would have
been paid for it ; but, instead of sending bread, he sent
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the silver an copper tor the poor to buy
therefore he had an undoubted right to be reimbursed.
Proof was then given that the four defendants wer
overseers of-the parish of Liverpool in March 1.

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