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BISHOP BENNET PRESENTED WITH HIS FREEDOM.
on or before 1 July next, shall be deemed no longer tenants, and such leases shall be sold by public auction. It., that £100 be borrowed at 6 per cent. interest, to pay the purchase of Mr. Wm. Cam's interest in a house and concerns in Castle Street ; It., £20 to David Roche, Esq., half year's rent of the late Fowl Market; It., £32 lOs. Od. to William Coles, Esq., expenses of altering, flooring, and painting the Mayor's Gallery in Lower Shandon Church; It., £1112s. 8d. to Saml. Hobbs, slater, for repairing the North and South Milk Market and South Meat Market ; It., £1 2s. 9d. to Jasper Ford for engraving a Council plate. The Council, sensible of the good conduct of William O'Bryon Drury, Esq., Comr. of H. M. Ship Squirrel, have resolved to confer on him, as a mark of their approbation, the Honorary Freedom of this City. It., £3 14s. 8d. to Saml. Hobbs, tyler, for work done; It., £8 19s. 10d. to Andrew Peace, apothecary, for medicines for S. Stephen's Hospital, and £6 for one year's attendance on the Boys; It., that the ground whereon the old Fish Market stood, and which was lately set for building a new Bride- well, be reset, as said Bridewell is not now to be built ; It., £3 Os. 6d. to George Barber for ropes and for the scales in the New Market ; It., a year's salary to Mary Ballard; It., £10 to John Johnson, the rent of the rooms made use of by the Sergeants-at-Mace for keeping goods attached. Present-Mr. Mayor and Sheriffs; Alden. Lawton, Owgan, Kent, Sir S. Rowland, Kingston, Webb, Purcell, Sir J. Franklin ; Mr. Willcocks, Coles, Piersy, C. S., Izod, and W estropp. 6 July, 1790. \, That the Rt. Revd. Will. Bennet, Lo. Bp. of Cork and Ross, be pre- 1\ sented with his freedom in a silver box ; also John Leland, Esq., Governor of Cork, in a silver box; and Richard Cumberland: Esq., Bartle Douhigg, Esq., Counc.-at-Law, the Sheriffs assistant at the late Election of Members for this City, freemen at large; It., £158 Os. 2d. to George Seymour, Pew- terer, work done; It., that £150 be borrowed at interest to pay the aoove money, and that the Mayor, &c., do execute a Bond carrying interest at 6 per cent. ; Whereas, it appears, by the oath of the Lamp Contractor, that from 1 Sep., 1787, to 1 July, 1790, the several deficiencies in his affidavit, amounting to £353 5s. 7d., arose in the money appointed by the Mayor, &c., to be levied fol' the erecting, lighting, &c., the lamps of this City and
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