The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-04-12 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL DOCKS

ELECTION BY THE DOCK RATEPAYERS OF A MEMBER
OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE.
TO the Merchants, Owners, and Part Owners of
Ships, and other Persons duly qualified to Vote for the
Election of a Liverpool Dock Ratepayer to be a Member of the
Committee for the Affairs of the Estate of the Trustees of the
Liverpool Docks.

I, CHARLES TURNER, Esquire. Chairman of the said Com-
mittee, in pursuance of the powers and provisions of the Liver-
pool Dock Act, 1851, and of the other acts relating to the Docks
and Harbour of Liverpool, and also of a vote of the said Com-
tioned, do, by this public advertisementE dEul
mittee, appointing for this purpose the day hereinafter men-
,quired by the said acts, convene a MT yINPGub of
Ratepayers of Liverpool (duly qualified as hereinafter men-
tioned),
between the hours of Eleven of the Clock in the Forenoon and
l htehde, asp orcek-
Four of the Clock in the Afternoon, at the Dock Office in
to be holden on FRIDAY,
Averpool, for the purpose of ELECTING, NOMINATING,
MEMBER of the said COMMITTEE, to supply the Vacancy
occasioned by the death, on the First day of April instant, of
nd APPOINTING a Liverpool DOCK RATEPAYER to be a
William Claxton, Esquire, late one of the Members of the said
Committee ; such Dock Ratepayer to be so Elected to rank in
respect of seniority in, and to be liable to retire from, the said
Committee, as, and when, the said late Member in his lifetime
did rank and was liable, as aforesaid.
Candidates for Election to the said Office must not be.Mem-
berg of the Town Council of Liverpool, must be natural-born,
or duly naturalised subjects of the United Kingdom, must have
resided within the Borough of Liverpool, or within eight miles
therefrom, for five years previously to the day of Election, and
must each have paid rates and duties, by the said acts, or some
of them authorised to be raised, levied, and collected, to the
amount of £25, on his individual account, or as agent for
others residing not less than eight miles from the Borough of
Liverpool, or .50, if paid by any house of trade in Liverpool,
in which such Candidate may be a partner, within a year im-
mediately preceding such election, and must not he Directors
or other Officers ot any other Dock, Basin, Wharf, Quay, Pier,
or Landing Place within the port of Liverpool, now exempt by
law from the payment of Liverpool Dock Rates, or any part
thereof.
The Dock Ratepayers qualified to vote at the said Election
are those persons who shall have respectively paid, either as
principal or agents, the said rates and duties to the amount of
elm within one year previously to such Election, and whose
names now appear on the annual alphabetical printed list of
persons so qualified to vote as aforesaid, which list has been
duly revised and published according to law, and may, at any
time, be inspected at the Dock Office.
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CHARLES TURNE:i, CHAIRMAN,
Dock Office, Liverpool, 7th April, 1853.

MONEY LENT on PLATE, WATCHES, JEWEL-
LERY, SILKS, VELVETS, WOOLLENS, and every
description of Manchester and Leeds Goods,at Half the Pawn-
brokers' Rate of Interest. _ _

Apply at 66, Seel-street, two doorsfrom Back Colquitt-street
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