The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-05 00:00:00

THE TRANSIT SHEDS.

Mr. RIPLEY sqiil he was told the whole of the transit
sheds were- likely soon to be occupied with tobacco. Par-
ties placed their tobacco there without passing the scales,
and there it remained without paying any rent.
Mr. Ntcot said that was one of the things they must
get remedied I,y the new bill.
The CHAIRMAN said it was certainly a great oversight
in the bill. _ _ _

Mr. A SKIN said it was not any oversight. The bi:l
was forced upon them with all its defects.
The CEIAIRMAN.-1t has an effect opposite to what
was intended.
Mr. AIKIN said that, in spite of all he and ethers could
say, it was forced on them. It was suicidal as regarded
itself, and injurious to the trade of the port.
Mr. EvANs thought there oueht not to be a restriction
only with regard to tobacco. If the warehouse accommo-
dation for the tobacco was not sufficient now, either the
Corp°, ation or the Dock Committee ought to provide
other accommodation.
Mr. NICOL said the restriction, of course, would not
be confined to tobacco.
Mr. AIKIN hoped that, as they were about to proceed
for a bill, they would seek power to make those sheds as
available to the town and to the trade of the 'nit as they
might be. He then referred to the plan originally pro-
posed, of leaving the quay open, and rooms above in
which to place the goods until they were removed, for
which they might have made a small charge. Ile thought
some alteration might be made now of the same kind.
Mr. EVANS did not think that would ever be listened
to, for it would entail the expense of a warehouse without
the accommodation of one.
Mr. AIKIN said the additional expense would be very
little, seeing that they had already gone to the expense of
making an incipient warehouse by erecting these sheds.
Mr. EVANS was about to speak, when he was inter-
rupted by
The CHAIRMAN, who said they were getting into an
irrelevant discussion. _ . .

Mr. EVANS thought that, as the discussion had gone
so far, he ought to be allowed to proceed.
The CHAIRMAN persisted in saying the conversation
had gone far enough, when
Mr. EVANS said he had observed that, on almost every
occasion when the Chairman interfered with a discussion,
he selected the time when he (Mr. Evans) was about to
speak, or was speaking • but he contended this subject
ought then to be discussed. They had heard a complaint
about tobacco, but he did not believe it had in any way
interfered with the use of the sheds.
Mr. RIPLEY.--Four sheds out of the eleven have been
in use with it.

Mr. EVANS.—But the other seven were not all occu-
pied at the same time.
The CHAIRMAN said he interfered at the earliest op-
portunity when Mr. Aikin talked of raising the sheds.
Mr. AIKIN said, the view they might now discuss was,
whether they should not, now that they were proceeding
to parliament, get a clause to remedy the evil?
The CHAIRMAN said, the proper time, then, to have
mentioned that was a day or two before, when a special
meeting was summoned to consider the amendments to
be made in the dock acts. This would soon be again
under their consideraton, and a parhart,tntary committee
formed, to whom the matter could he mentioned.

Mr. RIPLEY said they bad already let to the Customs
two sheds, and he asked whether it would not he better
to let them others, seeing they could occupy them in spite
of them ?

Mr. nem, said that would be a proper question for
the sub-committee ; and here the matter rested.
A suggestion to place a light at the northern extremity
of the new river-wall was adopted, and the marine and
dock surveyors were directed to carry it out.
The Dock Surveyor reported that he intended to let the
Prince's Dock dry on the evening of Thursday next, the
7th of November.