1069
NO .·LEASE TO. BE MADE WITHOUT TEN DAYS' PUBLIC NOTICE.
This day the Draft of the new Bye Law proposed at the C. D. H. at the Guildhall was agreed.by this Board. Whereas by a Bye Law confirmed 5 Feb., 1721, it is enacted, that no lease, &c., should be made of any lands;· &c.; or revenues, belonging to this Corporation, unless there be first ten 'days' public notice given, by affixing the same in writing· on some public place of the new Exchange, l;Lfter which it shall be put up to cant, and whereas it has been found that the letting the g~teage and·oth.er Tolls in manner aforesaid has been lately attended with great uncertainty as to the produce, and likely to be attended with greater, unless s~me mode be adopted by which the schemes and col- lusions formed for lowering their produce be defeated, and whereas it is appre· hended that if the aforesaid Tolls, &c., be let by proposals for one year from 29 Sep. next to 27 Sep., 1792, it would be a ·more certain mode of letting them for what they ought to produce;. ordered, that instead of setting the Tolls, dues, &c., by public cant that they be let by proposals, and that the Mayor shall two clear days before publish an advertisement in the Newspapers, mentioning such day that he will receive the proposals for letting the ·Gateage Tolls of said City, toget~er or separately, for one year, under such terms as were by order of Council confirmed by the C. D. H. directed to be let last year,.which proposals .s~~ be sealed up and contain the n9:mes of the securities, and shall be.delive!ed before the meeting of the Committee on the day to be so appointed for declaring the tenants of said Tolls, dues, and Customs, before which day at a C. D. H. to be held after eight days' previous notice, twelve perso~s shall be chosen out of the Freemen to join with the Common Council and to meet at the Council Chamber on the day appointed for opening and determining on the aforesaid proposals, and such persons as they shall approve of shrJl be declared takers of said Tolls, dues, &c., for one year ; and in : Qase ·the whole cannot be let in one day that said Committee shall adjourn to such other day as they see neces· sary, &c. ; It., that a lease be taken in the name of the Mayor, &c., from .George Daunt, Esq., Doctor of Physic, and his Sister Ann Daunt, spinster, of a parcel of ground containing in front to S. Patrick Street 17 feet 4 inches, in depth 42 feet 8 inches, and in depth in the rear 15 feet, bounded on the North by S. Patrick Street, on the East and South by Mr. James Gregg's holdings, and on the West with the Passage leading from S. Patrick street ~nto the Fish Market, which passage is 8 feet 8 inches wide; and also of
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