THE MAYOR REFUSES THE RECORDER HIS RIGHT TO VOTE IN THE COUNCIL. '663
Present--Mr. Mayor, Sheriffs Carleto~ and:_Swayne; Ald 80 , Hawkins, Millerd, Huleatt, .Austin, Croker, Jackson, Farren, Fuller, Parker, Owgan, Westropp, Winthrop, Lavit, Taylor, Millerd, Jun., Crone, Wrixon, and Mr. Smith, C. S., (postea) the Recorder as an adviser of the Council. "I dissent from paying Mr. Bull's bill of Costs, Because it was an irregular proceeding of the late Mayor and not agreeable to the Charter or Bye Laws, and the more because the Government annulled said election.- H. Millerd." Whereas Thomas Elmsly, Ebenezar Pike, and others have by Wm. Fuller, Esq., and Hugh Millerd, Jun., Petitioned this Council for their right of free- dom at large, entitled thereto by birth or servitude, many for some years .past being refused their rights, whereas the Mayor, &c., have rejected said Petition, now we whose names are subscribed being of opinion that said petitions ought to be enquired into and justice done, do protest against the present Mayor for not examining into the merits of said petitions. · Whereas from time immemorial the Recorder of Corke hath voted in the ·common Council, and always deemed a member thereof, and whereas the present Mayor, &c., refuse to admit the Recorder to vote, we, the under- written, protest against the said Mayor, &c., for refusing the Recorder his right to vote, contrary to the Custom of time immemorial, also against pay- .ing Mr. Bull his bill of Costs, and against the Mayor for his arbitrary and illegally taking away the Council Book from Hugh Millerd, Esq., when it was his turn as a member of this Council to protest against any orders of this board, and we protest against the validity of all the acts of said Mayor, &c., made this day, and we protest against the Mayor, &c., refusing the Recorder to sign this protest by seizing of the Council Book. . Joseph Austin, Amb. Jackson, Wm. Fuller, Harding,.Parker, Hugh Millerd, Jun. . Aid Fuller and Millerd, Jun., produced to the Mayor 103 Petitions of several persons to be admitted free, without producing indentures, which petitions the Mayor locked up in his drawer with several others, and at the same time declared to the Council that the more weighty affairs of the City should be gone on first, said Petitions being given in about two of the clock at noon, and not before, though the CounciJ: met at ten, the Mayor also declared that he would appoint a day for reading said Petitions, and
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