Glasgow Courier. — 1862-09-11 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

GLASGOW TOWN 0017NCIL.  A meeting of this Council was held on Thursday —the Lord Provost presiding. The Town Clerk read Dr Strang's report on the assessments for 1862-63. Last year there was collected in all E 11,426. As regards the prisons, the receipts last year were £6769 14s sd, and the disbursements £6743 The estimated charge for next year was £5937 Os Cid, which, with £337 4s 9d to be raised under the Lunacy Act, amounted to £7274 5e 14. The proposed assessment, in order to meet this, was is 2-16 d per pound on the rental of the municipality, which would produce about £4630. The total surplus of last and next year would therefore be £177 6s ld. The sum paid last year under the Registration Act (including balance of £246 5s 54 due the corporation) amounted to £2366 16s 54; the amount of assessment received was £2142 Is 64, being a deficiency of £224 8s 11d. The estimated charge for the current year, including interest, was £2100; which, ly with the anr.e deficiency, made £2324 8s lid to be provided for by an assessment of 6-163 per pound, which would produce about £2200. Under the Registration of Voters Act there was received last year of assessment £lO7l 2s 9d, leaving a deficiency of £l2 8s 104. The estimate for next year was £lOOO, to be raised on an assessment of 3-10 d per pound, which would provide about £1570. Under the Lands Valuation Act last year the receipts were £263.5 68 3.1, and the surplus £lO3 7s. The estimated expenses for the current year were £15713 12s 64, to be provided for on an assessment of 5-16 d per pound. which would produce about £l7BO. The whole asaessments for the current year, therefore, amounted to 2d per pound, being the same as last year. The report was agreed to. Dr Strang then reported the gross expenditure last year on the parks and galleries, which amounted to £21,493 18e, and the income to £12,872 14s, being a deficiency of £4621 41. The LORD PROVOST, in moving the adoption of this report and the imposition of an assessment of 24 per pound, stated that the excessive expenditure was caused by the extensive operations in the Queen's Park, and more especially by a sum of £4OOO being given to the unemployed for work, which could have been performed by ordinary labourers for half that amount. A long and not very edifying discussion then took place in reference to the River Bailie Court, and particularly with regard to the dispute about the claims of the Town Clerks and Procurator-Fiscal to exact fees for duties performed in that Court. Mr GEMICILL, in a lengthened speech,moved the following motion: "That while the Council approve of the resolution of the Magistrates of date 27th May last, enjoining the Town Clerks and Procurator-Fiscal to discharge their respective duties in an efficient and proper manner, it is inexpedient to sanction anything in the proceedings of the magistrates which bear, or imply, a right on the part of these officials to exact fees; and that the matter in dispute should be left to be adjudicated upon in any question between the River Trustees and these officials, with which, as appears from the opinion of the counsel, the Corporation has no concern." Mr G. W. CLARK moved the following amendment :-" That es the conduct of the River Bailie Court and the appointment of its officials is under the control of the Magistrates, this Council do not feel called upon to interfere in its management." The amendment was carried by a large majority.  At the Glasgow Autumn Circuit Court, which sits here on Monday first, there are 53 cases, implicating 71 individuals, set down for trial. Amongst these are two charges of murder, and two of culpable homicide. It is understood that the trial of Jessie Wintosh or M'Lachlan, for the murder at Sandyford Place, will take place on Tuesday. KIRKINTILLOCIL —The body of Jean Robertson, a millworker, wh,- has been amissing since Monday was on 'f,ernoon taken out of the Forth neighbourhood of the weav• on the canal bank, and the recovery in