926 CAPTAINS OF H. M. SHIPS IN HARBOUR PUESENTED WITH THEIR FREEDOMS.
Present--Mr. l\fayor, Sher. Harding and Lane; Alden. W estropp, Butler, Bnsteed, C. S., Browne, and Morrison. 8 Jan.-No business for want of a sufficient number.-Wm. Snowe, Clk. of Conncil. Present-1\fr. Mayor, Alden. Westropp, Bury, Butler; Mr. Morrison, and Browne. 9- JtZn~, 1778. Ordered, tha:t Mr. Snowe, Clk. of the CeuncH, wa·it on the Dep. Recorder. Counc 5 • Bennett, Millerd, and Hartnett to draw a draft of heads of a Bill for the amendment of several acts passed relative to this City. It.., .£20 9s. to Sampson Austen, woollen draper, clothes for the Blue Coats and Exchange Porter; It., £2 lOs. 2d. to Cresar Fanning, Paper Staine-r, for Paper for the Mayoralty House; It., ·£30 9s. 4!d. to Mr. X 7 JHayor for looking-glasses for Mayoralty House;_ It., £2113s.10!d. to Ald. Westropp, Master of S. Stephen's Hospital, balance due to him, to be ac- counted for on the loan, &c.;· It., £16 os. 8d. to Sampson Austen for a Gown and Cap for the Sword Bearer; It., £.8 7s. lld. to said Austen, for clothes supplied fo.r two boys bound apprentice out of S. Stephen's Hospital; It., £48 lls. O!d. to Timothy Hughes, ironmonger, for repairing the Corpora- tion coal barrels. Ald. Collis having ·resigned his office of one of the Ald. of the Ward of this City, by instrument under his hand and seal,.ordered, that a posting be put up in the Exchange for a C. D. H. 26 Jan. to elect an Ald. of the Ward in the room of said Cgllis. That the Ron. Henry St. John, Esq., Capt. of H. M. Ship Torbay, be pre- ri,. sented with his freedom in a Silver Box; also Richard Rodney Bligh, Esq., v ·Capt. of H. M. Ship Camel, in a Silver Box ; William Carlyon, Esq., Capt. of H. 1\L Sloop of War Cupid, in a Silver Box ; Wm. Blair, Esq. Capt. of H. M. Sloop of War the Wasp in a Silver Box ; Michrel Kearney, Esq., regulating Capt. of H. M. Navy in the Harbour of Cork in a Silver Box; and that Robt. Uniacke, Esq., M.P. for Youghal; Saml. Sealy, gent., eldest son of JohnS., gent.; Edward Collis, gent., eldest son ofWm. C., Esq.; Wm.. Honner, gent., eldest son of Robt. H., Esq.; wm. Fleming, mercht., eldest son,of John F., cooper, dec., be admitted freemen at large. Ordered, that £15 be paid .the Sheriffs, expenses in removing James Coughlan, a prisoner, to Dublin on a writ of H. C. ; It., that the Parish
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