Rich. Caulfield Council Book of Cork & early annals

NUMBER OF LAMPS TO BE SET UP IN THE SEVERAL PARISHES. 991 g11ineas a year; It., £3 Os. 8d. to Saml. Brookes, for newspapers provided for the Council Chamber. Present-Mr. Mayor, Sher. Waggett ; Alden. Philpott, Bury, Wetherall, Butler, Lawton, Harding, W. Travers, Kent, Maylor, Webb, Owgan; Mr. c. s. 24 June, 1784. No members attending, than those named, the Mayor was obliged to break up.-W. Jones, Clk. of the Council. Present-Mr. Mayor, Sher. Waggett ; Alden. Wetherall, Travers, Butler, Lawton, Harding, Kent; Mr. Izod, and Mr. C. S. 26 June, 1784. ·Or-dered, that .£67 2s. Sd. be paid Saml. Hobbs, carpenter, when he shall have erected a necessary out-house at S. Stephen's Hospital; It., .£48 5s. 9d. .to Mr. Mayor, for a carpet, &c., for the Mayoralty House; It., that Mr. Kent do buy 100 barrels of coal; It., that Ald. Harding and Kent, and Mr. Browne be a committee for examining the accounts of Skiddy's and Brat- ridge's Alms Houses; It., that the Waterbaillif do furnish the account of his receipts and expenditure to 24 inst. ; It., that Ald. Harding, Mr. Izod, and Sher. Waggett be a committee, with those chosen by the C. D. H., for inspectiJ:lg the Chamberlain's accounts. Present-Mr. Mayor, Sher. Waggett; Alden. Wetherall, Maylor, Travers, Butler, Lawton, Harding, Kent ; Mr. Izod, and Allen, C. S. 21 July, 1784. I i ,.,..,_ \ I / Ordered, that 30 guineas be paid Mr. Mayor to provide an entertainment k at Blackrock 2 Aug. In pursuance of an .Act, &c., for the regulation of the City, &c., we, the Mayor, &c., do fix 1000 globe lamps with single burners, good Turkey cotton wick yarn of 8 threads, as necessary for said City and suburbs. That 299 ·be erected in the parish of the Holy Trinity, 191 in the parish of S. Peter, 99 in the parish of S. Paul; 235 in the parishes of St. Mary and S. .Ann Shandon, 176 in the parishes of S. Finbarry and S. Nicholas and South suburbs; and further, that said Lamps be lighted on 1 Sep. at sun setting, and continue lighting every night from thence till sun rising, to 1 May next, to be lighted with good rape seed oil or good fish oil, &c., and we fix the sum

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