HC Deb 21 March 1806 vol 6 c504
Sir S. Cottrell ,

one of the clerks of the privy council, presented at the bar, "a Return of the total number of vacancies which have arisen in the Additional Force, by death or desertion, men reclaimed as deserters, or claimed as apprentices, or discharged as unfit for service, for the year preceding the 1st of Sept. 1805, together with the number who had volunteered into the regular forces, for the year ending 1st of Oct. 1805, pursuant to the 14th and 15th sect. of 44 Geo. III. cap. 56." Ordered to be printed.— Mr. Burdon rose to submit a proposition of great and general importance, and particularly to the poorer classes of the community. It was become in the highest degree necessary to ascertain, and to fix upon some mode for the accurate measure meat of coals, for in consequence of the want of such an arrangement the public and especially the poor and ignorant, were subject to the grossest frauds and imposition. To remedy such evils was the object of the measure he had thought it his duty to bring forward. The hon. member concluded with moving, for leave to bring in a bill for the better regulating the admeasurement of coals seaborne; which was given.—Mr. Staveley presented at the bar an Account of the receipts and arrears in the Post-Office department on the 5th of Jan. 1806, and Mr. Franklyn presented an Account from the commissioners of customs of the arrears and balances due by collectors, &c. These accounts were ordered to lie on the table, and the latter was ordered to be printed.—Ordered on the motion of Mr. Vansittart, that an account should be laid before the house of the amount of interest accruing upon such Exchequer Bills as are to be paid off in the year 1806; and the right hon. gent. gave notice that he would move a vote upon this subject in the committee of supply on Monday.—Sir J. Sinclair moved, that there be laid before the house an account of all grants already made out of the Forfeited Estates in Scotland. Also for an account of all balances arising from the said estates, with the interest due thereon, and the persons in whose hands the same are. Ordered.—Mr. W. Smith brought up the report of the committee to whom the Petition of Messrs. Chalmers and Cowie was referred, which was ordered to be printed.—Mr. Close presented the First Report of the Commissioners of Military Enquiry, which was ordered to lie on, the table and to be printed.—The house resolved itself into a committee on the Dublin Paving Bill, in which some conversation took place between Mr. C. Wynne, Mr. Vansittart, Mr. J. Latouche, lord De Blaquiere, and Mr. Ormsby. The two latter opposed the bill as unjust and unnecessary, and the former defended it. The report was ordered to be received on Monday.

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