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1\IEMORIAL FOR THE BOND FOR TllE USE OF TllE MILITIA ARMS.
1 Dec., 1762. Ordered, that the waste plott of ground, cellar, &c., on Haman's ~Iarsh, taken from Ald. Reily, be set by public cant for 600 years to highest bidder. This day Willm. Rusteed, Esq., Waterbailiff, produced an account of the Water dues from 29 Sep., 1761, to 29 Sep., 1762, with his afli(lavit at foot, by which it appears he paid the Chamberlain £158 38. ~~d. over and above all expenses. That £30 128. be paid l\{essrs. St. Leger and Franklin for ale for the army on rejoycing days, from 18 Jan., 1762, to 30 Nov. last; It., £21 08. 6!(l. to C. S. expenses of painting the Corporation Gallery in Paul's Church ; It., £4 to Mr. John Wood for one year's rent of the Guard House at Black- pool. Mr. Sheriff Lane this day reported that the committee appointed to settle with Mr. Hugh Norcott, the Collector of the Gateage for the present year, for the custom of turf, furz, and timber in faggots for fuel, agreed for the sum of £70; ordered, that it be allowed him out of his present quarter's rent. It., that £23 188. 6d. be paid Charles Holland, gunsmith, for repairing part of the Militia Arms. Present-Mr. Mayor, Sher. Lane; Ald 80 • Jackson, Parker, Owgan, Wes- tropp, Winthrop, Busteed, Hodder, Harding, Philpott, Bury, and Wilcocks, c. s. ·4 Jan., 1763. No business for want of sufficient numbers.-W•. Snowe, Dep. Clk. of Council Present-Mr. Mayor, Sher. Lane ; Ald 80 • Owgan, W estropp, Winthrop, W riion, Hodder, Harding, Swete, and Mr. Willcocks, C. S. 7 Jan., 1763. Ordered, that a Memorial be sent the Lords Justices, setting forth that the Corporation formerly executed a bond to his late MajY. for a quantity of • arms for the use of the Militia, since the commencement of the present war with France, that they have been repaired at very considerable expense, and that as the preliminaries of peace with France and Spain are agr~ed on, the
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