The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-08-20 00:00:00

ADJOURNED COUNCIL MEETING

The adjourned monthly meeting of the Council was
held on Wednesday. _

Before t he ordina'ry proceedings commenced, the MAYOR
impressed upon the different members of the Council the
necessity of not taking up the time of the Council for the
mere purpose of making speeches.
Mr. Alderman BENT moved the confirmation of the
proceedings of the Improvement Committee, and said the
committee expected soon to be in possession of the land
on Shaws-brow, which they were authorised to purchase
for the purposes of improvements, but that, in order to
widen the neighbourhood of Shaws-brow and the old
Haymarket, so as to give a more commanding view of St.
George's Hall, it would be necessary that the Council
should grant the committee the sum of £lB,OOO more
than they had at present in hand.
After some discussion, the proceedings were confirmed.

The proceedings of the Health Committee, including
Wash-houses and Baths, comprised a recommendation to
appoint Mr. Comenius Davies, now head of the surveyor's
staff in the engineer's office, to the situation of assistant
local surveyor, at the salary of £3OO per annum, in the
place of Mr. Thomas Duncan, lately appoined engineer
to the Water Works.
Mr. I3ENNETT having moved the confirmation of the
proceedings, some discussion took place on a resolution
of the committee, ordering an information for a nuisance
to be laid against parties storing guano in Tempest-hey.
On the motion of Mr. Alderman CHILTON, who said
that the crews on the guano ships were all very healthy,
the resolution was referred back to the committee.

A proposal of the committee to charge a certain amount
to builders, for boarding on the foot-path in front of
buildings, during their erection, was objected to by seve-
ral members of the Council, and
On the motion of Mr. THOMSON, was referred back to
the committee for further consideration.

The rest of the proceedings were then confirmed

TILE WATER QUESTION

AGAIN-PLEDGING OP THE

CORPORATE

ESTATE

The proceedings of the Water Committee comprised a
report that " The Liverpool Corporation Water Works
(Amendment) Act, 1850," has received the Royal assent
—a recommendation to apply to the Lords of the Trea-
sury for their sanction that the estate of the Corporation
may be a collateral security for money to be borrowed on
the water account.

Mr. G. IIoLT then moved that the proceedings be
confirmed. The Act for prosecuting the works had now
passed the two houses, and had received the royal assent ;
and it now only remained for the Council to carry it out.
The time for carrying out the Act was limited, and with
these few remarks, there being nothing more on the pro-
ceedings that called for observation, he moved the con-
firmation of the proceedings. _ _

The TowN-CLEnx said it would be necessary for the
chairman of the committee to move formally that the ap-
plication be made to the Lords of the Treasury for their
sanction to give the corporate property as a collateral
security for all money borrowed on account of the
Rivington works.
Mr. HOLT moved accordingly.
Mr. LANGSDALE seconded the motion.

Mr. FERGUSON moved, as an amendment, that the
recommendation of the Committee to apply to the Lords
of the Treasury be not confirmed. Dlr. Ferguson went
on to complain that the Water Committee were breaking
faith with the public by now asking the Council to pledge
the corporate estate, when it had all along been said that
if the act was again obtained they could borrow money
sufficient to carry out the Rivington works on the security
of the waterl account itself. As the bill had only just
been passed, he thought it was discourteous to the Coun-
cil to ask them so soon to pledge the corporate estate.
Mr. HENDERSON seconded the amendment.

Mr. lionsoN warmly supported the original motion,
and urged that all further oppos.tion to carrying out the
Rivington works, as quickly as possible, was useless.
in answer to a question from Mr. Picton, the TOWN-
CLERI said that he had taken the opinion of \lr. Cromp-
ton, who said that for all debts hitherto contracted on
account of the Rivington works the corporate estate was
liable, without it being necessary to apply to the Lords
of the Treasury ; but that for all debts to be contracted
it would be necessary to apply to the Lords of the Trea-
sury before the corporate estate could be given as security
for any money to be borrowed. _ _ _

A discussion took place, in the course of which Mr.
Bennett, Mr. Chalmers, Mr. Bigham, and Mr. Jones,
supported the amendment, and Mr. Alderman Moore,
Mr. Alderman Cooper, Mr. Avison, Mr. Hornby, Mr.
Freme, Mr. Alderman Hodgson, Mr. Woodruff, and other
members of the Council opposed.
Mr. HoLT having replied, a division took place, when
the amendment was lost by a majority of 36 to 11.

Mr. BEN-NETT then moved as another amendment that
plans and specifications, and tenders be obtained before
any application be made to the Lords of the Treasury to
mortgage the corporate estate.
Mr. HENDERSON seconded the amendment, wilich was-
loit by 31 to 16.

Mr. PICTON then moved, as a third amendment, that
the proceedings of the committee be confirmed, with the
exception of that portion of them which referred to the
application to the Lords of the Treasury—that the consi-