8 ( Ireland.) REPORT FROM COMMITTEE ON PETITIONS that said lands are not set at their full value, that he believed such part of said lands as were demised to him were not at a twentieth part of their value, that the corporation intended same as a bounty to him, that the value of the whole given to him by the corporation, abstracted from the value of the leases in being, which came to him in right of his wife, were about 100I. a year; that he never heard that Latullagh was part of the Spittal lands, that he never received above twenty or thirty guineas as a fine, that he never saw any books belonging to the council, but those produced ; that when he was mayor he quartered the soldiers who were to stay any time in the town, first on the brewers, and then on the popish merchants ; that he made the constables return lists on oath of the inhabitants fit to have sol- diers quartered on them, that he laid the burthen principally upon the popish inha- bitants, that he quartered the soldiers equally according to the best of his judgment, that Richard Graves had not one quartered on him, that he did not remember whether he quartered officers or not, but if they came to him for billets, believed he gave them ; that he was as light on the protestants as he could be, that he never quartered any upon council- men, except that he quartered some upon the brewery, in which some council- men were concerned; he always quartered soldiers when going through the town, whether there were orders from the government for the purpose or not; that he did not inquire from the barrack- master or commanding officer, whether there was room for them in the barracks or not; that he quartered the men without any such inquiry, that he believed none of the other mayors quar- tered men upon the City, except when they were upon their march, but by the express directions of the government; that he was sure some of the citizens were paid for quartering of officers, for several affidavits had been made before him for the purpose; that he had known merchants hire lodgings for officers, and pay for them; that he believed, upon the officers making affidavits, the money had been paid to the merchants by the government; that the revenues of the corporation are disposed of without the consent of the court of D'Oyer Hundred, that John Vincent, the chamberlain, never had accounted with the corporation, the council, or with any body, since the time of his first being elected into that office; that there was an order made some years ago by the council, that he should account by a certain day, but that said order never was complied with or enforced, and that he never heard more of it; that he never knew that any person was laid under any restric- tion or promise previous to his being admitted into the common council, that by the corporation books it appears that the chamberlain used formerly to account an- nually, and that he thought it the duty of the council to oblige the chamberlain to account annually; that the corporation orders for money are not regularly paid, that the common council men are mostly the lessees of the corporation, that the rents due to the corporation are very badly paid, that he never paid any rent him- self, that the corporation orders are not paid in course, that the chamberlain gives the preference to such as he pleases, that he believed there are several corporation orders of several years standing, for payment of which many applications have been made, and that the same are not yet paid ; that he believed there was great par- tiality in the payment of corporation orders, that bethought it the duty of the council to put a stop to such partial proceedings, that he attended but very seldom the markets, as he had a very good deputy upon whom he relied; that he did not swear his deputy, that the mayor and common council appoint a deputy, that he does not know what condition the almshouse is in, that part of it was demised to Richard Vincent, that the same number of widows are now kept in it as formerly, that the Blue School is dropt, but did not believe it was occasioned by the corpo- ration's not paying the salary; that he was in council when the 2,0001, was ordered to be raised, that they went directly from the council to the court of D'Oyer Hundred to confirm that act, that he believed Mr. Maunsell, who was to lend that money, was advised the confirmation of the court of D'Oyer Hundred was necessary, and that he himself believed the confirmation of the court of D'Oyer hun- dred was necessary; that the nineteenth of May seventeen hundred and forty- nine, is not a usual day for holding a court of D'Oyer Hundred; that there was no pre- vious notice given of holding said court, for the purpose of raising 2,000/. or any other sum; that Alderman Arthur Vincent was at that time common speaker, that he was not present at said court, that he believed the raising of the said 2,000/. was not then assented to, that there was no act done that day at the said court, that Alderman Ingram declared in Key- lane that the mayor was common speaker, that he was in the court of D'Oyer Hundred on Monday the ninth of October