MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS IN IRELAND.
37 CORK.
tion which are about £8 16*.
6eZ.
weekly.
His own salary is £3 a week, the duties which he
CITY 0F C0RK-has'to discharge occupying his whole time.
Before the appointment of this officer, the corporation let those tolls annually; but numerous well-founded complaints being made of the extortion and violence of the persons employed to collect the tolls by the lessee, the corporation took the collection into their own hands, about three years ago; and the committee having selected a very proper person to superintend the collection, the public have derived great benefit from the change, which is felt and universally acknowledged.
53.
The superintendent has 27 Collectors under him, who are appointed by the committee Toll Collectors, of revenues.
They are placed at 13 different stations of entrance into the city, to collect the toll and receive salaries of from 85.
to 10s.
a week each.
54.
The Superintendent of the Markets, whose duties and emoluments are hereafter detailed, Superintendent of is also Assay Master.
His duty, as such, is to assay the weights in the markets, which he does the Markets and every three months, and to assay and regulate the weights of all private persons, who require Assay Master, him to do so, for which he charges 2d.
for every half hundred weight, and Id.
for every lesser weight.
He also inspects measures, for which he is paid, for a gallon 2d.,
and for every lesser measure Id.
These charges exceed those prescribed by the statute of 7 Henry VII.
c.
3.
His fees arising from this office amount to about £ 15 per annum.
He is appointed by the mayor.
55.
The same person is also one of the two High Constables, who are appointed by the High Constables, o-rand jury.
Their salaries are £50 Irish each, presented on the county of the city, and they are exempt from all city rates.
Their duty as high constables is to execute warrants in all serious criminal cases, in which they are aided by the sheriffs and the armed turnkeys of the city ffaol and bridewell.
In addition to all these offices, the present mayor has appointed this individual one of the serjeants at mace, as already mentioned.
56.
The two Mayor's Serjeants are appointed by the mayor, and are in fact his livery Mayor's Serjeants.,
servants.
They are provided with liveries, and paid 9s.
a week each by the corporation.
57.
The Sheriffs' Serjeants are also their personal attendants, and are appointed by them.
Sheriffs' Serjeants.
They are paid 3s.
a week each by the corporation.
58.
The Sheriffs' Bailiffs are also appointed by them.
Their duties are to serve summonses Sheriffs' Bailiffs, on jurors, and to execute warrants, except where special bailiffs are nominated.
59.
The General Weighmaster is appointed by the mayor, under the 4 Ann c.
14, sec.
3.
General "Weigh -
He attends at the general weigh house, and keeps the beam and weights.
His emoluments master.
are the fees payable under the Act, out of which he pays the expenses of the weighhouse.
The Butter trade of the city of Cork, up to the passing of the Act of the 10 Geo.
IV.
c.
41, Former Butter was under regulations peculiar to this city.
The statute of the 40 Geo.
III.
c.
100, repealed Weighmasters, the then existing laws therein recited, regulating the sale of butter, so far as same affected the city of Cork, and placed it under peculiar restrictions, which Act was revived and continued, save in certain particulars, by the local Act, 53 Geo.
III.
c.
70.
This latter Act vested the appointment of three wcighmasters in the common council of the city of Cork, thus restoring to that body the right of appointment under the 10 Geo.
I.
c.
9, which by the 30 Geo.
III-c.
24, had been taken from them, and given to the Crown ; and, after authorizing such weigh¬ masters to take the fees prescribed by the Act of the 40 Geo.
111.,
(being Id.
for any weight not greater than 1 cwt.,
Hd.
for any weight not greater than 1J ewt, and 2d.
for any weight not greater than 2 cvvt.,)
it directed that such fees should be paid over by the weighmasters-at the end of each month to the chamberlain of the city, who, after deducting £30 per annum for his trouble, should apply one-third of the residue, in the first place, in keeping up a weigh¬ house, with all matters necessary, and next, in remunerating the weighmasters; and that he should pay over the two remaining thirds in equal shares to the Wide Street Board and Harbour Board.
The three weighmasters were thus appointed and remunerated until the passing of the Act of the 10 Geo.
IV.
c.
41, which repealed a clause in the 40 Geo.
III.,
by which all persons selling butter in the city of Cork, were compelled to bring it to be weighed to the weighmasters appointed in manner before mentioned.
Several of the restrictive clauses of the 40 Geo.
Ill: being still in force at their weighhouse, while all restrictions as to butter weighed elsewhere were altogether repealed, the public ceased to bring butter to be weighed by them, and their business altogether disappeared.
Under these circumstances, it was suggested to the then mayor, to appoint a general weigh-Present Weigh-master for the city of Cork, pursuant to the statute of 4 Anne, c.
14, which was accordingly master, one; and it was agreed between the Mayor and Committee of Merchants, that the same Fees Agreement be-ould De paid to this weighmaster as had been previously paid to the three butter weigh-tween Mayor and^ pasters, under the 40 Geo.
Ill, and that they should be applied in the first place in paying Jff^fs as t0" jj?
kryi h had been agreed on, to the weighmaster, and that the surplus should be paid and Hit0 the credit of three gentlemen, to be by them divided between the Wide Street Pub]' v
Boards as before.
This arrangement was acted on for some time, when the oraurfif ?"ered
that the fees Pavable imder the statute of Anne were only Id.
for every fuseit 1 CWtv and lcZ" for eveiT draugnt weighing one hundred or upwards, and re-weiah
Pay •m°re' Since tllat Perioc^ tne WG°le fees receiveci nave ^een applied by the B aster 'm ^charging the expenses of the establishment and to his own use.
