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

TIIE HAY MARKETS.

The council then consented to a proposed amendment of
the appropriation of the markets.

The TOWNCLERK stated that the appropriation of the
various markets declared that the present hay market should
be discontinued after the 21st of Feb. 1840; but having to pre-
pare the bye-laws, ithecame 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 parliamentary
fees attach, laid the bill before Lord Shaftesburv's legal ?ec-
retary, inasmuch as if the bill came before the House of
Lords unopposed, the assent of his lordship, as chairman of
the committee, would, in effect be necessary to its passing.
"That his lordship's decision, as intimated to the town-
clerk's agents, was that the model upon which the court 0
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 the inhabitants 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 govern-
ment in favour of the introduction, much desired in other
quarters, of a county courts bill, in the form of which it was
originally introduced; for the alteration of that court, in
effect, into a court of requests, but allowing a jury of five in
all cases, un'ess dispensed with by both parties ; upon which
bill amendments maybe proposed, applicable to such boroughs
incorporated wider the municipal corporations act, as maY
be able and willing to bear the expenses of their own local
courts, beyond the contribution thereo 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 thew, the most inor-
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.