Dublin City Assembly Rolls - Extracts from the Calendar of the Ancient Records of Dublin 1716

m. 49b. [12.] The report of the committee of directors for the Ballast Office to the general assembly of the 18th of January, 1716[17] :

That we have continued pileing below Ringsend as long as the seas would permit, and have finished some. small part of what was designed to be piled, and hope in time it may answer the ends proposed by it : ordered to proceed.

That we intend next spring:, if your honours think fit, to go on with the pileing on the South Bull, according to our last report; have some oak timber by us towards carrying on the said work, fit for the second, third and fourth row of the said piles, but shall want for the first row, which must be oak, and a longer length than what we already have :' ordered to proceed.
The second float, mentioned in our last to be then building, is now finished and at work
We have carried the kishes as far westward on the north side of the river as we designed them, and likewise as high at that end, being three rows, and have filled them with stones, and are now backing them, and do design to continue laying kishes to the same height eastward on the said river side :' ordered to proceed.

The engine from Holland, mentioned in our last, we have received and tried, and do find it much more chargeable in working than was expected, neither is it capable of driving piles of a length sufficient for Cock lake and the said South Bull; but there is one Wilks, a smith, who proposes to make an engine which he says will drive the longest pile which the office will have occasion to drive, with half the number of hands which the Dutch engine requires and with more expedition, of which they have made a model which has been seen by my Lord Mayor and others ,and several of them do approve of it; but the price demanded for it being fifty pounds, sterling, we would not order the building or making of it without your honours approbation thereof and directions therein: ordered that the engine be made as the committee shall direct.

'We having seen the working of the engine from Holland, and being pretty well acquainted with the engine that is offered to be made, we are of opinion that our workmen here are capable of driving the piles Dub without assistance from Holland.

'We have neither kishes nor hurdles by us to go on with the said works, so that the charge of furnishing them and the long timber for the said piles, the great quantity of stones, both for the said piles and filling the said kishes, together with backing them, and the other great expences of the said office the next summer, will far surmount the produce of the same, and the most part of the fund of cash which we had beforehand being already laid out, as may appear by the office accounts and abstract of the office cash, we fear we shall not be able for want of cash to go on with the said work next summer unless the city will please to assist us, which we hope they will do, and that the rather because the said office has, by their directions and for their use expended on the city wan on the north side of Lazy Hill £693 16s. 1d., sterling, of the said office cash, as may appear by vouchers and certificates:' ordered to go on with the work as money comes in.

'We do humbly conceive that if the cash book of the Ballast Office was closed at the making the report to be delivered to the assembly, it would be much easier from time to time to examine the said cash book than it is at present, which is closed every quarter, ending the lst May, August, November and February, yearly: ' ordered that this be referred to the committee.

'An abstract of the cash now in the office is here unto annexed :

All which is humbly submitted to this honorable assembly: Mathew PEARSON - Thomas CURTIS - John PORTER -Thomas SOMERVILLE - William EMPSON - Peter VERDON - Philip COOLEY - William ASTON - William MAPLE - Thomas STRINGER - Percivall HUNT - Henry GLEGG -James KING'

Roll xix, m. 48
An abstract of the Ballast Office accounts from the 18th October, 1716 inclusive to the 17th January 1716(17) exclusive.
Ballast Office Dr.
To balance of account to 18th October, 1716 inclusive: £22. 2s. 5d.
To cash received from ships etc., from the 18th October, 1716 exclusive to 17th January, 1716[17], inclusive: £535 2s. 1d.
To cash received from Messrs Burton & Harrison : £900 0s. 0d.
Total: £1457 4s. 6d.
Deduct: £1445 0s. 6 1/2 d.
Balances in the Office £12.3s. 11 1/2 d

Besides in Messrs Burton & Harrisons hands: £700 0s 0d

Total in cash: £712 3s. 11 1/2 d

Due to Sundry Persons from the Office: £212 6s. 10 1/2 d

Remains: £499 17s. 1 1/2d.

Per Contra Cr.
By cash paid sundry disbursements from 18th October 1716, exclusive to 17th January 1716 (17) inclusive: £1103 18s. 7 1/2 d
By cas disbursed for the city, from 18th October 1716 exclusive to 17th January 1716 (17) inclusive: £341 1s. 11 d.

Total: £1,445 0s. 6 1/2 d

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