ON PETITIONS RELATING TO LIMERICK TAXATION. 73 / without it, for instance, myself; the paymaster's office is there, and the paymaster's business is done there. I have to pay the men weekly, and to take their receipts, the same as if the regiment was in full existence. I resided there for months, and other officers have resided there; the late surgeon resided there for years; the quarter- master and his family resided there a considerable time; we all, at different periods, have resided there. You have resided there in turn ?— No, we have been there together; I have been there when the quartermaster and his family were there. Where do the rest of the staff reside ?— The adjutant is the mayor of Limerick, and he has an establishment of his own, and I happen to have a relation in the same street nearly opposite, and for the present I reside with that relation. At present, there is no person residing there?— Not actually living there, except my servant, one of the staff. Where do the remaining members of the staff reside, who do not reside in that house; do they reside at their own private houses ?— Just now they are at their own private houses; there is a picquet guard mounted every evening to aid in the pro- tection of the city. Have you at any time, since that house has been taken for the accommodation of the city of Limerick staff, known any billet money issued for the purpose of enabling the staff to provide lodgings for themselves?— From the first day of being disem- bodied, lodging money has been paid. Does the payment of the 100/. a year pass through your hands?— No. Who receives it?— The assignees of Mr. Worrall, the bankrupt. Are you aware that the sum which they actually receive, is the sum of 100/. ?— Decidedly. Neither more nor less?— Decidedly not; I have no possible idea of any thing else; I never heard such a suggestion before. Is it not essentially necessary that an orderly room, and a paymaster's office, and a regimental store room should exist for the staff of the regiment?— It is impossible the business of the regiment can be done without it. Do you conceive then, an accommodation for those purposes you have stated, could be procured at a less sum than loo/, a year?— I do not know whether some place might be procured for less than 100/. a year, but not one which would answer the purpose so well. Is it not a house which you have now ?— It is. Do you not think it necessary that you should have a house ?— We cannot do without it. Would you be responsible for your stores if you kept them in apartments with other lodgers residing in the house ?— That is a thing that cannot apply, because there could not be any other lodgers in the house; it must belong to the staff. What stores are deposited in the house?— That is the quarter master's department. Would you be satisfied then as an individual, taking a house in the city of Limerick, to pay a 100/. a year for that house unfurnished, and paying the taxes?— I would not now, because houses are fallen very much, and the consequence is that the staff have just now surrendered it, thinking there would be an abatement made; but we must have a large house for the purpose, in fact the government think it necessary that the officers should be well accommodated, and previously to their making an arrangement for taking a house of the same description, the staff officers are to sign their consent, that they agree to that as being fit for their accommodation, and that they will not look for any further accommodation. Appendix ( A.) John Wallace, Esq. ( 10 July.) Veneris, 12° die Julii, 1822. THOMAS SPRING RICE, ESQUIRE, IN THE CHAIR. Mr. John Courtenay, Called in; and Examined. ARE you connected with the city of Waterford ?— Yes. Mr. Are you aware whether any arrangement has been made on the part of the cor- John Courtenay. poration with the inhabitants at large, within the last year, relating to the grand (, a juiy.) 617.. D d jury