The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-09-13 00:00:00

PRESTON ANNUAL SESSIONS.

(Abridged from the Preston Pilot.)
The annual sessions was held at the Court-house, on Thurs-
day last, when the Rev. Jonathan Brooks presided, and the fol-
lowing county magistrates were also present:—John Cunliffe,
Joseph Bushell, I'. B. Addison, W. G. Walmsley, Jas. Clarke,
H. Hargreaves, Thomas Rawson, Adam Hodgson, William,
Marshall William Calrow, William Gale, R. E. Allison, Ro-
bert Andrews, Robert Darbishire, Robert Heywood, W. H.
Wood, P. E. Towneley, and William Assheton, Esquires;
Colonel Rawstorne; Dr. Whalley, M.D. ; the Reverends J. T.
Horton, R. A. Rawstorne, R. Moore, W. Thursby, and Miles
Formby, clerks.
The Chairman said that the first matter to which he would
direct the attention of the court was to the county treasurer's
accounts for general purposes. After which he read from the
book of accounts the expenses incurred to the county during the
past year, as follov,s:— s. d.
Prosecution of felons and misdemeanours. ..15,966 3 3
Conducting offenders to prison.. 3,38-1 6 2
Passing Scotch and Irish poor.. 397 9 0
Do. discharged prisoners 26 6 11
Maintenance of criminal and vagrant lunatics... 1,110 9 6
Do. prisoners in Lancaster Castle.... 3,021 1 0
Repairs and improvements in Do. .... 486 12 11
Coroners taking inquisitions
Law expenses
Salaries.
Printing and stationery.
Inspectors of weights and measures. 834 3 3
Prisoners in King's Bench and Marshalsea. 55 0 0
Sundry contingent accounts 465 9 3
Balance on account of private lunatic asylum

£31,830 111
This total of expenses, as compared with that of the last year,
showed a decrease in the county expenditure to the amount of
£5,807 Os. 62d., the former year for these several sums making
a total of £27,637 18s. 6d. The arrears of rolls not yet collected,
were £8,059 145.; and to this were to be added the charges
paid for banker's commission, postages and stamps, in all
£39,989 15s. lop. On the other band, the receipts to the cre-
dit had been, from the rolls returned in arrear last year,
£8,170 Ils. Id. , from rolls of id. in the pound, £35,120 Od. 4d.;
the balance from the treasurer of £709 19s. ; the proportion re-
ceived from the treasury on account of prosecutions and convey-
ance of convicts, £5,008 10s. Bd.; for fines (including some
trifling sums for other purposes) £2,364 9s. 71d.; and for in.
terest, £193 10s. 6d. ; thus making a total of £51,567 Is. 2id.,
leaving a balance due from the treasurer of £11,577 ss. 4d.
It was agreed, on the motion of W. Gale, Esq., seconded by
the Rev. J. F. Horton, that all fines in future should be received
and paid through the clerks to the magistrates.
After considerable discussion on the amounts claimed by con-
stables for conveying offenders to prison, it was resolved that a
regular and general scale of charges should be established for
the county.
A recommendation to the visiting magistrates of the county
lunatic asylum was then carried, to consider the propriety of re-
ducing the charge for pauper lunatics.
The accounts relating to the Asylum were then passed.
The assessment for county bridges was then laid at 1-12th of
a penny; for maintenance of Preston House of Correction 3-Bths
of a penny; for Kirkdale House of Correction 3-Bths of a penny;
for loan for Kirkdale-gaol 5-Bths of a penny; for maintenance
at Salford prison 3-4ths of a penny; for bridges in Salford hun-
dred 3-16ths of a penny; for the county bridges in Leyland
hundred 3-Bths of a penny; for Amounderness hundred 3.Bths
of a penny; for Lonsdale 3-Bths of a penny; and for West
Derby 3-4ths of a penny.
Mr. Robert Roper was appointed as the Surveyor of Bridges
for the Leyland Hundred.