6 ( Ireland.) REPORT FROM COMMITTEE ON PETITIONS lodged all his original accounts with the corporation, pursuant to the order of the house for that purpose with the clerk of the house. Richard Maunsell, esquire, the younger, being examined, said, lie had been a burgess of the said corporation since the year one thousand seven hundred and forty- four, that he is very conversant with the affairs of the city, and has made it his business to study the constitution of it, that he generally attended the council, and does not remember that any account was ever settled between the common council and the chamberlain, that he believed no account was ever settled between them, that the common council in general was not at all informed of the state of the accounts, and that but very few of them knew any thing of the state of the revenue or accounts; that he believed the principal person acquainted with them was Arthur Roche, and a few of his particular acquaintance; he said, he was a common council man when 2,000/. was raised upon a mortgage of the salmon wier; that he is confident said sum never was accounted for in the court of D'Oyer Hundred, and cannot recollect it ever was accounted for in council, but that he heard some time ago that it was; that he has heard great complaints made for several years past, of abuses committed in the collection of the tolls at the gates, and in the markets of the city. That the streets and back lanes of the city have been kept in a very bad condition for six years past, until very lately, most parts of the same being covered with dirt and dung; that the scavengers do not do their duty, nor have they since his memory ; that he believed the scavengers salaries are full sufficient to keep the whole city very clean; that there are many . frauds committed by the butchers in the markets, that he believed they might be prevented if the magistrates did their duty; that the present mayor is very active in his duty, much more than the former mayors; that no assize of bread was given out in the last year except once or twice. Your Committee find in the said corporation books an entry of an order, bearing date the nineteenth of May one thousand seven hundred and forty- nine, made by the council, for raising a sum of 2,000/. upon a mortgage of the salmon wier, to be paid to Arthur Roche, to discharge several debts due by the corporation, and that the like order was made on the ninth day of October one thousand seven hundred and forty- nine, in council, and confirmed on the same day by th court of D'Oyer Hundred. Robert Hallam, town clerk, being examined, said, He had been town clerk five years past, that the usual method of making entries of the acts of the council, is to write down upon a sheet of paper, the names of the members of the council, and to make a mark at the names of those present, to enter the day, month, and year, and then to take short notes of every order that is conceived, if petitions or accounts are brought in: the usual way is to make an entry on the back of each, how the same is disposed of, and in a day or two afterwards he generally entered the full sense of the minutes so taken at large in a book kept for the purpose. Your Committee find, that there is an entry in the said corporation books, dated the twenty second of September one thousand seven hundred and fifty, importing, that Arthur Roche, esq. having produced an account concerning the application of the 2,000/. which he received from the reverend Richard Maunsell, for the use of the corporation, it was ordered that the said account be referred to the consideration of the Committee, and your Committee find an entry in the said corporation book, dated the seventeenth of September one thousand seven hundred and fifty- one, wherein it is recited, that a committee of the common council had been appointed by the common council in common council assembled, to examine and state the account of the corporation of the city, and that they had reported by their chairman, under their hands and seals, that they had carefully and strictly examined an account supplied to them by the said Arthur Roche, concerning the application of the said sum of 2,000/. and the manner in which he applied the same, and the persons or creditors to whom he paid the same ( which account is therein mentioned to have been annexed to the said report, and to have been read in common council) and that it did appear to them, that the said Arthur Roche had fairly, strictly and justly, applied the said sum of 2,000/. in discharge of the debts due of the said corporation, it was therefore resolved and ordered, that the said report and account be confirmed, and that the said Arthur Roche, his executors and administrators, be acquitted and discharged