The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-12 00:00:00

THE HAY MARKETS.

The council then consented to a proposed amendment of
the appropriation of the markets.
The TOWN-CLERK stated that the appropriation of the
various markets declared that the present hay market should'

be discontinued atter the 21st of Feb. 1840; bilt having to pre-
pare the bye-laws, it-became necessary to extend the.time •to
the Ist of Oct. 1840, when the present hay market would be
discontinued.

COURT OF REQUESTS DILL.

The TOWN-CLERK read the following report of the Court
of Requests Committee :
" That the town-clerk, in pursuance of his instructions,
causes a court of requests bill to be introduced this session
into the House of Commons, in the form approved of by the
committee of the council in the last session:

" That this bill differs from the court .of requests acts
passed for other places during the last and present sessions
in these material particulars :
" First—That the appointment of judge is proposed to be
continued to be in the. council of the borough, instead of
being vested in the lord chancellor. • • - •

" Secondly—That all causes shall be decided by a jury of
five burgesses instead of causes only where the debt exceeds
£5, the parties in difference having the power to dispense
with the jury if they agree in such option.
" That the town-clerk, before proceeding with the second
reading of this bill, upon which step the heavy parliamentark
fees attach, laid' the bill before Lord Shaftesburv's legal see,-
retary, inasmuch as if the bill came before the House -Of s'
Lords unopposed, the assent of his lordship, as chairman of
'the committee, would, in_effect be necessary to its passing:

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"That his lordship's decision, as intimated to the
clerk's agents, was that the model upon which the courto
requests acts of last session was framed was settled by such
authorities, and after such mature deliberation, that however •
such a deviation might be desired by theinhabitants of LiVer-
pool, no exception could be allowed with regard to the jury
clauses. That the effect of this decision being, that no jury
can be permitted in any case where the debt does not exceed
£5, the main object of the bill was virtually lost.
" Under these circumstances, the committee, with the.
advice of the town-clerk. determined to withdraw the bill ;
and they now recommend the council to memOralise.Overn-
Ment in favour of the introduction, much desirekin•other
quarters, of drounty courts bill, in the form of which it was
originally intrcduced ; for the alteration of that court, in
effect, into a court of requests, but allowing -a jury of tire in
all cases, un'ess dispensed with by both parties ; upon which
bill amendments may be proposed; applicable to such bbroughs
incorporated under the municipal corporations act, as may
be able and willing to bear the expenses of their Own local
Court's, beyond the contribution theie:b of the court fees.
"These amendments ought to comprise all the objects
proposed in the Liverpool bill introduced this session ;. and,
whatever may be the result of some of them, the most imor-.
taut one of a jury of five would most probably. be allowed.'.
The report was adopted by the • council. The business
terminated at twenty minutes_past two.