Take from "The Calendar of the Assembly Rolls of the Corporation of the City of Dublin"

1717

m. 59b con't

[12.] William OAKLY having formerly petitioned and set forth that the petitioner is tenant to the city for a house situate at the Old Bridge foot, built on one of the arches of the said Bridge, which house is very much out of repair and untenantable in the winter time, occasioned by danke coldes that arise through the floor of the same; that he is willing to rebuild the said house provided he could obtain a lease and leave to enlarge the said house frontwards as far as the arch runs, which he humbly proposes to do without interrupting the water course, praying the same to be taken into consideration, which petition. was referred to a committee, who made the following report :

Pursuant to your honors order of the last assembly (Roll xix m. 59b)
To us directed, we have viewed and surveyed the within premises, and are of opinion that the petitioner have a lease of the same, together with an addition on the north side thereof to the first pier of the Old Bridge, containing in front thereof seventeen feet, and in depth eastward, to the extent of the said house, twenty one foot; that he do not obstruct the passage of the water through the arch ; that he pay twelve pounds, sterling, per annum for the term of ninety nine years, payable half yearly on every Easter and every Michaelmas, capons to the Lord Mayor, and ten shillings, on the
perfection of the leases, to the Poor house, for the use of the poor; a map of the old tenement together with the new addition is hereunto annexed:
Thomas BOLTON, William EMPSON, David KING, William QUAYLE, Francis ARMSTEED : ,

Ordered that the petitioner have a lease pursuant to the committees report; leases to be drawn as Mr. Recorder shall advise, and the rent of twelve pounds do commence from Michaelmas next, the petitioner paying and discharging his present rent to that time.

[13.] The report of the committee of directors for the Ballast Office to the general assembly of the 19th of July, 1717 :
That we have since our last report laid and filled with stones on the north side of the channel 258 kishes, and are laying more: ' Ordered to proceed.-Allowed.
' That we have drove on the South .Bull above, three hundred piles with the old engine, in three rows, and are filling between them with stones and hurdles:
Ordered to proceed.-Allowed.

'The new engine is now finished; and we hope to have (m.58) it at work next week; if so, we design it to drive the long piles, and the old one the short piles, by which means the work on the South Bull will go on with better speed than it has done, if money comes in fast enough to keep them at work: ' Ordered to proceed.-Allowed.
We do find that of twenty seven gabbards and four Gabwherries, which are said to belong to Mr. John MERCER, and do not pay their dues to the Office, Mr. Thomas HOLT, one of the Office surveyors, has an interest in, and part of, sixteen of the said gabbards and three of the said wherries, and are of opinion that the said Mr. HOLT ought to pay the Office for them: ' Ordered that Mr. HOLT pay the whole where he is a partner.-Allowed.
'There are other owners of gabbards, etc., that are come-atable who refuse to pay the office dues, whom we have ordered to be prosecuted before my Lord Mayor, according to the act of parliament: ' Ordered to proceed. -Allowed.
' We have agreed with one Mr. CALDWELL, a merchant, for two hundred tun of oak timber, fit for piles, at two pounds thirteen shillings per tun, to be delivered by fifty tun at a time, the first fifty this month, and the last in December, next: ' granted.-Allowed.
On a malicious report being spread by some people that the Ballast Office had occasioned the bar to rise much higher than it formerly was, we caused the same to be sounded, and do find that the said report is not only false and groundless, but that the bar, by keeping the channel clear and suffering the water to have a full current against it, is much lower than it formerly was, as may appear by the annexed chart: ' Ordered that the directors of the Ballast Office do publish the same: -Allowed.

'An abstract of the cash now in the Office is hereunto annexed: all which is humbly submitted to this honorable assembly:
Mathew PEARSON - Thomas CURTIS -Thomas SOMERVELLE -Joseph KANE -William EMPSON – William ASTON - James KING -William MAPLE -Philip COOLEY'.

Roll xix m. 58
An abstract Of the Ballast Office accounts, from the 4th day of May 1717, exclusive to the 18th of July, 1717 inclusive.

Ballast Office Dr.
To cash received from ships etc., from the 2nd May 1717, exclusive to the 18th July, 1717, inclusive £735 4s. 0d.
Deduct: £550 6s. 9 ½ d.
Balance in Office £ 184 17s. 2 ½ d.
Besides in Messrs Burton and Harrisons hands £550 0s. 0d
Total in cash: £734 17s. 2 ½ d

N.B. That there are several debts due and growing due from the Office which when paid will sink a considerable part of the above cash.

Per Contra Cr.
By balance of the accounts due to the 2nd May, 1717 inclusive £44 6s. 0 1/2d
By sundry disbursements on the Office account, from the 4th May 1717, exclusive to the 18th July 1717 inclusive £506 0s 9d

Total £550 6s. 9 ½ d.

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