The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-22 00:00:00

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2. That a Central Board, responsible to Government, should
be formed, to which board the duties now perforated by the
Trinity-house and. Scotch and Irish Boards should be trans-
ferred. whereby uniformity in the management would be ef-
fected.

3. That the debt incurred by the purchase of privileges in
private Lighthouses, formerly very improperly granted to in-
dividuals, ought never to have been charged upon the Shipping,
being a debt for which Shipowners were no more answerable
than any other portion of the community; and that they ought
forthwith to be relieved from that debt, as recommended by
the Parliamentary Committee on Lighthouses, in 1845.
4. That this Association Cordially agrees with the following
resolution of that Committee :—" That all ex_p_enses for the
erection and maintenance of Lighthouses, Floating-lights,
Buoys, and Beacons on the coasts of the United Kingdom,
should henceforth he defrayed out of the public revenue, (as
the consular expenses are paid,) and that, as the Trinity-houSe
has incurred a debt under the authority of the 6th and 7th
William IV., cap. 78, in the purchase from private individuals
of their leases and possession of Lighthouses," improperly
granted as aforesaid, " the Government ought to take upon it
that debt."

5. That, in accordance with the recommendation of that
Committee, the money now expended out of the Light Dues
by the Trinity Board, for pensions and charitable purposes,
without control or responsibility, should cease to be so ap.
plied after the lives of the individuals now on their pensiOn.
list; and that, further, in compliance with the suggestion of
the said Committee, a comprehenSive measure should be
brought forward by Government for the relief, according to
service and merit, of destitute Masters' Mates, and Seamen of
Merchant Vessels, instead of the present system of favour and
interest, which answers none -of the desirable objects sought to
be attained for so important a class as the seamen of the
United Kingdom.
6. That the present system, both in rest.
mince of the Lights and the payment of allowances to super.
annuated Seamen and their families from Lighthouse Dues.
has been strongly condemned by every Parliamentary Corn:
mittee that has sat n-- tha subject; and the increase.]

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petition of railways with steamers and sailing vessels in the
coast trade having greatly aggravated the burden of Light Dues
since the reports of those Committees were laid before Parlia-
ment, immediate relief is the more necessary.

7. thst no measure which does not embrace the aforesaid
objects can afford satisfaction 'to the Shipowner, or any sub-.
stantial relief to the shipping interest of the country.,

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burdens :were presented to the last Parliament from every con-
siderable port or district in the United Kingdom; and this
Committm, therefore, resolves that active measures he at once
adapted fen• securing the co-operation of the Members, of the
present Pa rliament representing those porta and districts.
That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to eacl of
her Majesty's Ministers, to each Member of Parliament,. a 4
be otherwise ztenerally circulated

M. FORSTER, ChAirmAr.