Rich. Caulfield Council Book of Cork & early annals

. . GENERAL CORPORATION EXPENSES.

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to whom said money belongs, with interest 6 per cent.; It., that a pension of £i5 a year to Mrs...Mercy Lawton, widow of Christ. Lawton, Esq., dec.; It., that Mr. Kent buy 100 barrels of coals; It., £1 6s. 1d. for the Appen- dices for two years furnished for the Town Clerk's office; It., 3 guineas to Mary Ballard for attendance at the Mayor's office; It., £1 12s. 1 d. to Edward Westcomb, 'Change Porter; It., 4 guineas to Thomas Owgan, Esq., year's rent of a coach house held with the Mansion house; It., that the ground whereon the old Fish Market stood, which has been surrendered to the Corporation, ·be set by public auction for 500 year11; It., 5 guineas to the Sheriffs and Mr. Kinselagh to buy clothing for Thos. Burke, who atten'ds the Mayor's ofllce ; It., that the lot of ground between the East Wall of the entrance from S. Patrick Street into the Fish Market and Mr. Gregg's house, containing 18 feet and upwards in front, and above 41 feet in depth, be set by public auction for 100 years, and that the Mayor, &c., do execute a lease ; It., that the Materials of the houses belonging to the Corporation in Princes Street, to the East of the Fowl Market be sold by public auction by the Mayor, &c. ; It., that 7 guineas be paid Henry Townsend Daly for calculating the middle price of wheat and oats, and the middle average and medium prices of all corn brought to this City to ·return to the Collector weekly from 2 Oct., 1790, to 3 Oct., 1791. Present--The Mayor, Sheriff Dorman; Alden. Kent, Sir J. Franklin, Sir S. Rowland, Hingston, Harris; Mr. Lane, and Lucas, C. S. 21 Feb., 1792. Ordered, that 178. 7d. be paid for repairing the Mayoralty House bells; It., .£13 48. 8d. to Messrs. Jones and Co., for ·printing work, from June to Dec., 1791 ; It., 5 guineas to.Mrs. Snowe, widow of the late John Snowe ; It., .£78 16s. 9d. to Mr. Michrel Shanahan, stone-cutter, for stone tables .erected in the New Fish Market; It., £5 168. lOd. to Messrs. Rowland and Dan I. Morrison, for timber for the New Meat Market; It., that the Mayor, Sheriffs, C. S., Sir J. Franklin, Sir J. Rowland, Mr. Kingston and Harris be a committee for examining the tradesmens and other accoqnts ; It., that .£635 be paid the Mayor in addition to £365 from C. D. H. ; It., that the arrears due of John Gaggin, out of Corporation concerns, be received from him by installment of £70 a year, free of interest, as proposed by him on 135

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