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A STATE BED PROVIDED FOR THE LORD-LIEUTENANT.
and who would constantly superintend the work, that a considerable saving would be to the Corporation in the building of these appendages in that manner; accordingly, at the C. D. H. held 31 March, 1789, that mode was adopted. The Committee appointed for building the New Meat Markets was chosen for executing-those works, and Sir John Franklin appointed to constantly attend the execution of them, to draw on the Chamberlain and account with the auditors of public accounts~ so that every precaution was taken to prevent a misapplication of public money, and they have every ex- pectation that a considerable saving will appear in the mode of executing these works. "They called upon the W aterbailiff, and examined such accounts as he laid before them, and from Sep., 1788, to Sep., 1789, his receipts amounted to £300 lOs., and his expenditure £126 Os. IOd., and that from 1789 to 1790, his receipts were £277 17s. l!d., his expenditure £71 5s.l!d.; and they are of opinion that such measures should be adopted as will tend to increase the revenues. " That with respect to the moriey granted for entertaining the Duke of Rutland, when Lo.-Lieut., they find a committee, consisting of several .... ! gentlemen, was appointed to conduct that entertainment, who were em- '!> powered to draw the expenses from the Chamberlain. That all the money was drawn by their orders, and that they adjusted and settled. the accounts of them, and referred them to the Committee who audited the Chamber- "~.' lain's accounts of that time, so that these expenditures do not come under the inspection of this Board. But willing to give every information in their power respecting the Service of China and the State Bed, mentioned in the report, they made inquiry and they find that no China was pur- chased by the Corporation for that entertainment, the Committee having proposed to the Mayor that he should provide at his own expense, China, glass, knives, forks, linnen, and all other necessaries, and that they would ~,. allow 5Q_gUineas for the same, and accordingly -the then Mayor did agree to accept"of such offer, and did himself provide at his own expense all the aforesaid necessaries, the purchase of which would .come to a very large sum of money ; with respect to the State Bed, they find that it was pro- vided upon a supposition that the Lord Lieutenant would lodge at Ald. Travers, where the Bed was put up, but then Mr. Chinnery having made ail offer of his house for the residency of the Lo.-Lieutenant, it was accepted
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