The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-08 00:00:00

DOCK COMMITTEE.-THE ALBERT DOCK

The proceedings of the Dock Committee having been
read,
Mr. BRAMLEY-MOORE moved their confirmation.
Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE asked how the Albert Dock
warehouses were answering? He was aware that there
was a feeling of dissatisfaction out of doors on the subject.
Mr. BRAMLEY-MOORE said that a good deal of the
dissatisfaction had arisen with regard to some points in
the management, but that might reasonably have been
expectea in a work so entirely new in this part of the
country, and so totally different to anything in practice
heretofore in Liverpool. He might state that the ship-
ping were well pleased and contented, and that they, both
owners and shipmasters, had expressed their approbation
of the despatch and the reasonable amount of charges.
So far it had answered well. With regard to the charges
which the sub•committee had fixed for the regulation of
merchandize, some of them were found too high, but an
immediate revision would be made, and such rates would
be settled upon as would induce persons to send their
merchandize there. The Warehouse Committee had sat
for a long time on Tuesday ; they would meet different
commercial parties on Friday; and an alteration would
unquestionably be made. In the meantime, be believed
that a return of the difference between the high and low
charges would be handed over to those who might send
their vessels to the dock within the next fortnight, three
weeks, or a month. The committee bad only one desire,
and that was, to afford every facility to the trade of the
port. It was said that parties frequenting the dock were
required to give up the bills of lading. Now, it was no
such thing. They were required to exhibit their bills of
lading in order to show their right of ownership, and
there could be no objection to that. It was practised in
Lcndon, and it was one of the best modes of security for
property to the owners that could be adopted. Another
point which had excited a good deal of discussion, and
upon which a motion would be brought before the cotton
brokers to-morrow (Thursday), respected the sampling of
cotton. Now, the mode adopted was, that the cotton
eas sampled by the persons in the pay of the Albert
Dock. It was presumed that they were indifferent par-
ties, and that their sampling would be satisfactory; but
in the re-sampling for the buyers, the cotton brokers
requested permission to send their own men to do it
themselves. Now, although there was an objection on
the part of the committee to their sending their own men,
lest a difficulty in the working of the warehouses might
be created, yet they might send a person to superintend
and be present the whole time that the servants of the
docks were taking the samples. The sub-committee were
now discovering what the cost would be of passing mer-
chandize across the quay; and now that they had disco-
vered it, they would reduce the charges so low as not to
make it a losing business. He hoped shortly that a line
of dock railway and water conveyance would be under
the management of the Dock Committee.
Mr. TURNER asked how many vessels had as yet entered
the dock ?
hientheer there was any objection
Mm rr
TMuoRoNREERr replied--Nine.
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on the part of the insurance offices ?
Mr. MOORE said they had not come to any determina-
tion, but a meeting was to be held in London, and after
that it would be known.
Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE asked whether parties wishing