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Petition of John O'Donnell of Limerick and John Bouchier of the County of Clare 1761

12/07/1820

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Petition of John O'Donnell of Limerick and John Bouchier of the County of Clare 1761

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12 ( Ireland.) REPORT FROM COMMITTEE ON PETITIONS said schedule, an entry, dated the thirteenth of October one thousand seven hun- dred and seven, whereby it is ordered, that the customs of the gates of the said city shall be collected by the said schedule for all goods brought into the Said city, and no other, nor in any other manner, it being according to the ancient custom, and that trud copies of said schedule should be put up in the several public places of the city, to inform the inhabitants and others what customs and duties they were to pay for the future. Alderman Andrew Shepherd, who attended as agent on the part of the mayor and common council, laid before your Committee a printed paper, which is here- unto annexed, and which he said contained the schedules according to which the tolls of the gates, and in the markets of the city, hav6 been collected for several years past. And your Committee find, that the said paper contains the said sche- dule agreed upon in the year one thousand seven hundred and twenty- three, and also an additional schedule; and your Committee find at the bottom of the said paper the following words: " Any thing herein omitted, the custom to be regulated " by the mayor for the time being." » > 7 Your Committee find, that several disputes having arisen between the inhabitants and the toll- gatherers of the city, concerning the tolls of commodities mentioned in the said additional schedule, and several commodities not included in either of the said schedules, an agreement in writing was entered into between Arthur Roche, mayor of the said city, and John Vincent, chamberlain, and several of the said citizens, which bears date the fourth of September one thousand seven hundred and sixty- one, whereby it was agreed, that all the disputed tolls and duties should be collected and accounted for weekly, upon oath before the said John Vincent, and deposited with him, and to remain in his hands until the right of the corporation to such tolls and duties should be determined in a course of justice, and the said John Vincent thereby engaged to keep the said sums in his hands until the right to the same should be determined as aforesaid. Your Committee find an entry in the council books, wherein the act of the thirty- first of his late Majesty, directing that the toll of all grain should be taken by weight, and not by measure, is recited, and wherein it is also recited, that the toll of corn hath hitherto been taken in the market of the city by measure, being an ale quart for each Winchester Barrel containing four bushels, and that it was then become necessary to adjust the weight of the toll of corn and grain to be taken in the market, and an experiment had been made for the purpose; It was therefore ordered and directed, that the toll- gatherers should for the future collect and take out of every barrel of wheat containing four bushels, one pound nine ounces, and out of every of the like barrel of oats, fifteen ounces, and that proper weights and scales should be prepared for the purpose. John Geeran being examined, said, He farmed Thomond Gate, and the tolls of the market last year and the year before, that Thomas Ward and John Glynn were his partners, that in the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty- nine, alderman Francis Sarjent was mayor, and that at the cant of the gates and markets in the court of D'Oyer Hundred the mayor sent for the sheebeen, which is a measure for taking the toll of corn, that he ordered as much wheat as it contained to be weighed, and it produced three pounds twelve ounces, that he then declared, that three pounds twelve ounces were to be taken out of every Bristol barrel or four bushels of wheat, that the other magistrates present said, it was all right, that accordingly he and his other partners took three pounds twelve ounces during that year out of every Bristol barrel of wheat, and that they took out of all other corn the sheebeen, which held, as he believed, about two quarts. That at the last court of D'Oyer Hundred, at the canting of the tolls, Arthur Roche, who was then mayor, directed that the tolls should be taken as the year before, that he accordingly took the tolls in the same manner for three quarters of the said year, but was stopped during the last quarter, that he was ordered by the mayor to take the toll of wheat by weight, but not of any other grain, that wheat only was weighed in the court of D'Oyer Hundred, and not any other grain; that he gave directions to Thomas O'Hallam, pewterer, to make a new sheebeen that would hold three pounds twelve ounces, which the old sheebeen would not, that he had the old sheebeen which was the same which was made use of in the court of D'Oyer Hundred, and that the mayor finding the con- tents
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