ON THE LOCAL TAXATION OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN. N° 10.— ( Medicines, Necessaries, & c.) 105 in providing necessaries 2. Medicines by physician - 3. Necessaries by ditto - 4. Medicines by surgeon - 5. Necessaries by ditto ... 6. * Nurses and hospital superintendants 7. Meat and milk for sick - 8. Washing for hospital of Sheriff's prison Total of N° JO - - - £. 877. 5. 7. * To 1I1 is item for the Easter Term there should have been added 40/. for two hospital superintend- ents at Richmond Bridewell, and the same sum in that case should he deducted from the last item charged in 11. N° 11.—( Officers and Servants.) Easier. Michaelmas. Grand Jury Officers: s. d. s. d. 1. Secretary to Grand Jury ( Alexander Mont- gomery, Esq.) - - - 75 75 2. Treasurer of public money ( William Darley, 150 — — 150 — — Esq.) - - - - 3- Public accountant ( Daniel Hutton, Esq.) - General Officers: 75 — — J 5 4- Inspector of prisons ( Rev. P. R. Gamble) - 200 — — 200 — — 1 5- Protestant chaplain ( Rev. Thos. Gamble) - 50 — — 50 - — 6. Dissenting ditto ( Rev. James Horner) - 50 50 — — 50 - — 7- Roman Catholic ditto ( Rev. Lawrence Morrissy) ------ 50 8. Physician to prison ( Dr. William Harty) - 200 — — 200 - - 9- Surgeon to ditto ( Alexander Read, Esq. 113 15 — 113 1.5 — 10. Architect to ditto ( H. A. Baker, Esq.) Local Officers: 28 S 9 28 8 9 11. Gaoler of Newgate ( Frederick Bowns, Esq.) 200 _ — 200 — — 12. Deputy gaoler of ditto ( Mr. Robert Gilbert) 100 — — 100 - - 13- Six hatchmen at ditto - 169 — —. 169 -- — 14. Keeper of Smithfield Penitentiary ( Mr. J. E. Co Marston) ------ 60 - - — 15- Turnkeys and servants at ditto - - - 82 2 — 10 3 16. Governor of Richmond Bridewell ( Thomas Purdon, Esq.) - 200 200 17. Deputy governor of ditto ( Mr. A. Wilson) - 50 - - 75 — — 18. Matron at ditto ( Mrs. Frew) - 40 - - 40 — — 19. Turnkeys, schoolmasters, taskmasters, ser- vants, & C. ------ 332 9 9 379 1 4 Total of Ns 11 - - - £. 4535. 10. io. £. 2,225 15 6 2,309 15 4 Over which of those heads of expenditure is it that the grand jury possess the greatest discretionary power?— They may be said to possess very little discretionary power, save over the eleventh head, that of officers and servants, and even there their discretion is still limited. How do you show that to be the case?— If we examine the presentments for any one year we shall find not only that it is imperative on the grand jury to make the presentments, but to make them with little or no control over the actual amount. Can you give any instances in illustration of that assertion ?— I can furnish several: thus, if we take the table of presentments for the year 1822 under the twelve different 549 D d heads / / / Dr. William Harty. ( 13 May.)