The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-04-19 00:00:00

SPECIAL MEETING OF THE TOWX-COUNCIL.

Yesterday a special meeting of the Town-council was held
for the purpose of giving the necessary notices for holding a
market from Monument-place to Burgess-street, for the sale
of hay and straw, and to confirm a bye-law of the Finance
Committee substituting a coach stand in Stafford-street and
another in Burgess-areet, for the one now used in London-
road. The Mayor presided.
Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE said, the Finance Committee, for
the purpose of carrying out the wishes of the council, with a
view of removing the haymarket to Monument-place, had
meant to pass a bye-law, removing the present site of the
hackney-coach stand which now occupied that site to another
a little further down. In the Finance Committee was placed
the power of making bye-laws for this purpose, and they
consiflered they were justified in recommending the council
to discountenance the existing stand, and substituting in its
place a stand in Norton-street and Lambert-street. There
would be room for nine carriages ; and he moved that there
be a stand for nine carriages there instead of the one to be
displaced. This, however, was,merely to afford room for the
experiment of the baymarket in Monumect-place.
The TOWN-CLERK read the byelaw passed by the Finance
Committee. It stated that the coach-stand in Monument-
place should be discontinued from the Ist of May, and sub-
stituted the place already named.
11lr. G. IL LAWRENCE observed that this bye-law of the
Finance Committee related only to the coach-stand; and
that it was for the council to appropriate the land for the
haymarket.

'file-TOWN-CLERK then described the plan for the hay-
market. The land proposed for the new haymarket com-
menced at a line drawn from the westward corner of Audley-
street to the western corner of Moor-place, which was above
the Monument. It ran 34 yards westwardly until it was at a
distance of 18 yards from the eastern corner of Stafford-
street; it then ran 69 yards, till it was 17 yards from the
east corner of Lambert-street ; and from the line extending
from the west side of Audley-street to the west side of Moor-
place, to the distance of 19 yards from the west corner of
Moor-place, it ran in a straight line through London-road
for 127 yards, where it stopped at the distance of 15 yards
from the east corner of Hart-street. At its termination it
would be 15 yards wide ; at its commencement above the
Monument, 50 yards. •

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Mr. PARKER inquired what was the area?
The MAYOR replied that it had not been computed yet.
The DEPUTY TOWN-CLERK, after having inquired from
the Surveyor, said it was 3,962 square yards.
Mr. Alderman EARLE asked how many carts it would
hold ?

The TOWN-CLERK then read the document of appropria-
tion of the site for the haymarket.

Mr. PLATT asked whether it was intended to abandon the
south market.

The TOWN-CLERK replied in the negative; it was the in-
tention to have three markets.

Mr. H. HOLMES.—II is Merely an experiment, is it not?
Mr. RIGBY thought the south market had abandoned
itself.

Mr. PARKER asked whether he was to understand that
the bye-laws just brought in were to have the sense of the
council taken upon them ? _

The MAYOR said some one would move them