The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-12-23 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL DOCKS.
TO MERCHANTS, OWNERS, MASTERS OF VESSELS,
AND OTHERS.
THE COMMITTEE of the LIVERPOOL DOCKS
do HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that the OFFICERS and
SERVANTS in their Employ are strictly PROHIBITED from
SOLICITING or RECEIVING MONEY, REWARD, GIFT,
or PRESENT of any kind, for the purpose of doing, or omit-
ting to do, any act, matter, or thing whatsoever, touching or
relating to their respective offices or duties, under a penalty of
Twenty Pounds.
The Committee do also HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that any
OWNER or MASTER. of any Ship or Vessel, or any other
Person or Persons who shall GIVE, or OFt,ER, any Sum of
MONEY, or other thing whatsoever, by way of REWARD or
BRIBE, to any Officer or Servant in their employ, is also liable
to a penalty of Twenty Pounds.
The Committee do hereby request Merchants, Owners, Con-
signees, Masters of Vessels, and all other Ons whatsoever,
not to give, nor permit to be given, a y time, any Money,
Christmas Box, or Present, of an nd, to any Dockgateman
Pier Master, Dock Master. 0 • r, or Servant of Albert Dock
Warehouses, or any other er or Person in their employ;
and they also caution ieir Officers and Servants from soli-
citing or receivin e same, as, in any case coming to their
knowledge, enalty will be strictly enforced.
The Committee do also hereby further request, that parties to
whom application may be made, by any Officer or Servant,
Dockgateman, Vier Master, or others, for any Gift, Christmas
Box, or other Present, will immediately give information
thereof to the undersigned, in order that due inquiry may be
made, and the strictest discipline enforced.
(By order,) DANIEL MASON, Secretary.
Dock-office, Revenue-buildings, 18th Dec., 1851.

AT a MEETING of the INHABITANTS of the
BOROUGH of LIVERPOOL, convened by the Mayor,
pursuant to Requisition, signed by Bankers, Merchants. Bro-
ken, and others, interested in the Commerce of Liverpool, held
on THURSDAY, the 18th:day of December,lBsl, for the purpose
of "considering what measures should be taken with the view
of remedying the evils which exist under the present Custom-
house system,"—
The Worshipful the MAYOR iq...the-Chair,—
It was moved by T. B. HORSFA sq., President of the
Liverpool Chamber of CornmPrc econded by HUGH HORNBY,
Esq., Vice-President of the 'erpool Chamber of Commerce,
and resolved unanimous ,
"That )be prese tistom-house system is attended with
unnecessary tro , delay, and expense,—vexatious to indi-
viduals, hti • urions to trade." .

Moved by rnANcis SHAND, Esq , Chairman of the West
India Association, seconded by WILLIAM RATHEONE, Jun.,
Esq., President of the American Chamber of Commerce, and
resolved unanimously,—

" That the existing regulations, the constitution, and the
unduly centraliz d management of the Board of Customs, are
incompatible with the magnitude of the commerce of Liver-
pool."
It was moved hy JOHN AIKIN, Esq., seconded by ROBERT
RANKIN, Esq., Chairman of the Shipowners' Association, and
resolved unanimously.— _ _ .

may
" That the followinc.: Gentlemen be requested to act as a
Deputation from this Meeting to wait upon Lord John Russell,
and to urge upon his lordship the necessity of en efficient mea-
sure of Customs Reform and improved constitution of the
Board of Her Majesty's Commissioners of Customs, and the
establishment in Liverpool of some local authority with such
enlarged powers of decision for the regulation of the fiscal
business of the port as may be consistent with the uniform
administration of the laws viz.;—The Mayor; Charles Turner,
Esq., Chairman of the Dock Committee; T. B. tiorsfall, Esq.,
President of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce; Hugh
Hornby, Esq., Vice-President of the Liverpool Chamber of
Commerce; Francis Shand, Esq.. Chairman of the West India
Association ; William Rathbone, jun., Esq., President of the
American Chamber of Commerce; J. Bramley-Moore, Esq.,
Chairman of the Brazilian Association ; Robert Rankin, Esq.,
Chairman of the Shipowners' Association ; John Aikin, Esq. ;
John Bouch, Esq."
(Signed) THOS. LITTLF.DALE, Mayor.
It was then moved by T. B. HonsvALL, Esq., and resolved
snanimously.-7 _

--.7-lilattethanks of this Meeting are due to his Worship the
Mayor, for his impartial conduct in the chair."