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ALTERATION IN THE CORN MARKET TOLLS.
House and opening a new entrance adjacent to the house now tenanted by_Miss Johnson. Present--Mr. Mayor Sher. Fergusson and Sir H. Hayes; Alden. Owgan, Sir J. Franklin, Kingston, Purcell, Crowly, Kellett; Mr. Izod, Busteed, and Sadlier, C. S.
18 March, 1791. " To the Freemen of the City of Oorke.
"The Gentlemen who audited the Chamberlain's accounts, to 25 March, and 29 Sep., 1789, having made their report to the C. D. H., on 15 Dec. last, which they desire should be laid before the Common CounciL " The Common Council are of opinion with the gentlemen of the Com- mittee, that the good debts due to the Corporation, should be speedily col- lected and ready whenever a Committee shall be chosen by the C. D. H., for defraying the necessary expenses of such proceedings as they shall think expedient for that purpose; with respect to the debt of .£251 5s. mentioned to be due to Peter Comerford, on the ballance of his bond, they are to observe, that on letting the Corporation Tolls in the year 1786, for the then ensuing year, the Corn Market Tolls were taken by him at the rent of .£426, and that the Tolls of this Market, on an average for four years preceding,-produced to the Corporation .£470 annually. "That the established and legal Toll paid and received was a quart, ale measure, out of each bag ; that Sir Sam 1• Rowland having come into office on 2 Oct., 1786, when Peter Comerford's time commenced, he thought it proper to change the measure by which this toll had been paid and received time immemorial, and to make it wine measure instead of ale measure, which so reduced the produce of it to the taker, as_he alledged, that he refused paying so much of the rent, upon which a writ was issued against him, and he filed a Bill and obtained an injunction, in which state the business now remains, and this Toll on an average has since let for little more than .£200 annually. "The Fowl and Fish Markets being considered rather as appendages to the New Meat Markets than new undertakings, and those markets built by plan and estimate having cost a very considerable sum of money, it was thought that under the inspection of a person who could be depended on,
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