The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-10-07 00:00:00

Was appointed in 1836:
succeeded the late Mr.
Thomas Foster, the po-
sitions and duties, &c.
being varied by the pro-
visions of the Municipal
Corporation's Act.

Predecessor was first ap-
pointed in 1836, at a sa-
lary of £7OO. Mr. Shut-
tleworth, on his appoint-
ment in 1841, was in re-
ceipt of a salary of £BOO,
as one of the Magistrates
Clerks, and he entered
on his present office at
the same salary.
On the Ist January, 1836,
Mr. Okill's salary was
£6OO ; increased in that,
year to £7OO, and inl
1839, to £9OO.

Mr. Falcon, who was a
clerk is this department
previous to January,
1841, received a salary,
in 1836, 1837, and 1838,
of £250. In 1839 and
1840 the salary was
raised to £350. Mr.
Radcliffe, Jun. has re-
ceived a salary of £250
from the Ist January,
1841. He has been in
the Town-clerk's office
since 1836, under arti-
cles of clerkship to his
father, which expired in
1841.
On the Ist January, 1836,
his salary was £l5O. For
about half a year in 1836
it was reduced to £lOO,
without any reason being
given, and the precise
cause for the reduction
the committee have not
been able to ascertain,
but subsequently the sa-
lary was again made
£l5O, on the application
of the Town-clerk, and
the amount that had
been deducted was paid
to Mr. Tyson.
Appointed in 1836.

No clerk to Clerk of Com-
mittees previous to 1836.
Mr. Abbott was ap-
pointed in 1836 as Clerk
to Mr. Okill, at a salary
of £l5O. In January,
1841, it was increased to
£250.

Appointed in 1836. Sa-'
lary for 1836,1837,1838,
1839, and 1840, £BO, and
in 1841 increased to £lO5

Appointed in 1836. Salary
in 1836, £33, in 1837,
1838, and 1839, £4O ' • in
1840 £7O, and in 1841,
£BO.
Appointed in 1840, at a sa-
lary of £7O, which was
increased in 1841 to £BO.
This clerk ,sinceFebruaryl
1842, by a special ar-
rangement with the town-
clerk, is in future to
charge partly per hour'
and partly per folio, as
the law stationers do,
being guaranteed by the
town-clerk that he shall
not receive less than £BO
per annum
This clerk informed the
committee that, since Fe-
bruary, 1842, a period of
4i months, he had received
between £5O and £6O, but
could not state the sum
precisely.
Appointed in 1836, and has
been and is paid at cer-
tain rates per hour, or
per folio, according to
the nature of the work.

,This clerk is not required
constantly in the office ;
he is paid at certain rates)
per hour, or per folio,
according to the nature
of the business.

Under indentures for five!
years, from Ist Septem-
ber, 1839. Salary £l5,
with £3 16s. allowed for!
clothes for first two years ;1
£2O, and £7 16s. for;
clothes for the third andl
fourth years ; and £30,1
with £7 16s. for clothes,
for the fifth year.
Under indentures for five!
years, from March, 1840,
on the same terms as
William Campbell.
Appointed since 1836.

On Ist January, 1836, was
in receipt of the same
salary.

Succeeded Thomas Ro-
berts, in 1837, who had
the same salary.

Total PaYment
out of the
Borough Fund,
as far as the
Committee
have been able
to ascertain
sinceSept.lB4o,
to 31st August,
' 1841.

are kept. At the end of the week, the clerk, who is con-
sidered as having the Borough Court department, but who,
the committee find, by the clerk's own statement, is no more
exclusively engaged with these duties than others in the
office, gives the amount he finds received by the memo-
randum for Borough Court and other fees, to Mr. Tyson,
who makes the entry in a sort of cash-book.
Mr. Tyson, as cashier, (with various other duties to per-
form, including attending to the Borough Court, and the
more laborious ones of preparing the freemen's roll and bur-
gess lists,) is considered to be the person to receive the gene-
ral office fees, which he records in a book, but without sta-
ting the particular matter for which the fees have been re-
ceived. The amount of the bills of costs for the leases come
through the deputy town-clerk's department, in as unsatis-
factory a manner as the above-named fees, to Mr. Tyson.
All fees thus received go into a general fee-book, which is
kept by Mr. Tyson. This book has been turned into a pri-
vate cash-book for the town-clerk.

It appears, from time to time during the year, that Mr.
Tyson has to labour to separate the fees under different
heads for the treasurer of the borough fund, who has never
checked any account of fees from the passing of the Muni-
cipal Corporations Act, not considering it as his duty to call
for the particulars of the summary of the fees delivered to
him. Although these statements are made to the treasurer,
no money is paid over to him until the •nd of the year ; and,
last year, it is stated that the town-clerk had to pay over to
the treasurer upwards of £BOO, after deducting his salary of
X 2,000.

There is another mixture of duties between Mr. Tyson
and Mr. Hughes, the prosecuting solicitor's clerk, with re-
spect to the disbursements at the sessions. For this purpose
Mr. Tyson procures a sum of money from the treasurer each
session, giving a memorandum of the receipt. Tyson then
timepaymiesnt o
lostf
by what
these
i e
s i s e due
parties to tihnem . after
Hughes a portion, to pay counsel's fees, and he
gives a written order to the witnesses upon Tyson faj the
eac session,andoutdistinguishing m
their accounts. Mr. Tyson then prepares the clerk of the
peace's bill, and after some weeks the treasurer and Mr.
Tyson arrange respecting the money procured by the latter,
and he takes to account the clerk of the peace's fees, which
are carried to the cash-book already referred to as containing
the town-clerk's private accounts.
Besides the cash accounts above referred to, it appears
that there is another account kept by Mr. Tyson, called the
" town-clerk's weekly disbursements." This account goes
before the Finance Committee weekly, and Mr. Tyson re-
ceives the amount. From the little this committee has seen
of these weekly disbursement accounts, they certainly con-
sider it their duty to call the attention of the council to them,
as they are of opinion there are many charges inserted in
them which ought not to be paid out of the borough fund.
The committee have stated that some of the provisions of
the Municipal Corporations Act have not been carried out.
In pointing out in what particular instance they find this to
be the case, the committee will have to call the attention of
the council to the appointment of Mr. Radcliffe as town-
clerk, and the retaining in office of Mr. Okill after the Ist
January, 1836.
It will perhaps be in the recollection of some of the meal-
hers now in the council, that in 1836 the council of that day
thought proper to dismiss a considerable number of its offi-
cers, and among those officers retained the committee find
Mr. Okill. To retain Mr. Okill in the situation be held, St,