The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-09 00:00:00

NEW POOR-LAW

HAvING received the following REQUISITION from
the RATEPAYERS of the Parish, requesting us to
call a SPECIAL VESTRY of the Inhabitants, to take into
consideration the propriety of adopting such measures as may
prevent the introduction of the NEW POOR-LAW ACT
into this Parish, we do hereby, give Notice, that a SPECIAL
GENERAL VESTRY of this Parish will be held at ST.
NICHOLAS'S CHURCH. on THURSDAY next, the 11th inst.,
at One o'clock in the Afternoon, to determine whether any
and what steps shall be taken on behalf of this Parish, for
the purpose in the Requisition mentioned.

WILLIAM BIRKETT,
Churchwardens,
ISAAC HUTCHINSON,
JOSH. GIBBONS,
THOMAS MUNCASTER,
Overseers.
WILLIAM RUSHTON,
GEORGE GROOM,
6th March, 1841.

REQUISITION

To the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Parish of

Liverpool.
GENTLEMEN,-Mr. Morr, the Poor-law Commissioner,
having given the Select Vestry notice, that it is intended to
introduce the New Poor-law into Liverpool immediately
after Easter, we, the undersigned, being Rate-payers of this
Parish, request that you will call a Special Vestry, to take
into consideration the propriety of adopting such measures
as may prevent the introduction of this Act into the Parish
Liverpool, March 4, 1841
James Aspinall
J. Nelson Wood
Joseph Ackers
John Leyland
William Brocklebank
Robert Heywood
Richard Jones
Robert Jones
John Heywood Turner
George Evans
Alexander Smith, jun.
John Tinne
John Fletcher
George Green
Joshua Edwards
William Huson
James Forshaw
Thomas Warburton
David Cannon
Robert T. Horsfall
J. A. Jee
Robertson Gladstone
J. S. Leigh
George Kendall
John Bateson
John Wellstood
J. B. Brancker
Thomas Nixon
' James Hall
Joseph Gardner
N. D. Bold
Richard Houghton
John Middleton
Thomas Radford
Thomas Gibson
Thomas Read
Thomas Barber
C. G. Tattersall
John L. Pritchard
William Reynolds, jun
Samuel R. Healey
G. A. Tinley
I. Barned
Sudlow Brothers
C. J. Townley
William Dixon
Richard Griffith

James Harrison
Thomas Brown
Josias Booker
Wm. P. Bushby
Thos. Carson
R. Alexander
W. A. Smith
John Holmes
M. Wotherspoon
William B. Colton
Samuel Rowland
William Comer
Isaac Shakespeare
Joseph Parton
Robert Gill
D. C. Buchanan
J. Glynne Bateson
G. B. Brown
R. Crosbie Dawson
Thomas Robinson
James Bateson
James Poole and Co.
E. S. Yates
William Nevett
Thomas Moss
E. S. Boult
Robert Ledson
Thos. Sands
Sands, Turner, and Co.
Charles Turner
F. Heywood
Edward Franceys
Edward Horner
James Bunnell
John Walker
J. Caulbert
Chomley Woodward
James Gaskell
Ashley Brothers
Cyrus Morrall
William Rowett
John D. Eshelby
William Reynolds
William Shand
Elias Jos. Mozley
Richard Dawson

AT a MEETING of the BRITISH NORTH AMERI-
CAN ASSOCIATION of LIVERPOOL, held the 6th
March, 1841,

ROBERT RANKIN, Esq., in the Chair, &c.,

The Resolutions of the American Chamber of Commerce,
passed at their Meeting on the 2d inst., in which Resolutions
an alteration in the Duties on Timber is considered to be ex-
pedient, having been laid before the Meeting—

R was unanimously Resolved,—That this Association,
taking into its consideration the importance of the North
American Timber Trade to Great Britain and Ireland; the
employment which it gives to the Shipping and Seamen of
those parts of the Empire ; the demand which it produces
for their Manufactures in the North American Colonies;
and the great amount of labour which it creates for the Arti-
sans and Working Classes in their seaports ; and, moreover,
being fully convinced that it is the duty of thq British Go-
vernment to maintain and promote the prosperity of the Co-
lonies vitally interested in this trade, is of opinion that it
would be highly inexpedient to make any alteration in• the
Duties on Timber.

ROBERT RANKIN, Chairman