1867.]

ADJOURNED MEETING.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1867.

AN Adjourned Meeting of the Council was held to-day in the Council Chamber, Town Hall Buildings-the Mayor (Mr. Ald. Hunter.) presiding. The following members were also present:-Aldermen Ingledew, Philipson, Bell, Dodds, Sillick, Nichol, Wilson, Ridley, Laycock, and Hedley; Councillors Curry, Hunnam, H. Angus, Parker, Gregson, T. Robinson, W. Dickinson, Mawson, McAllum, G. Stewart, Milvain, Hodge, Scott, Newton, Harle, Harford, Burrell, W. Stewart, Barkas, Hutchinson, Morrison, Hamond, Plummer, Dove, Pollard, T. Forster, Sanderson, Potter, Falconar, J. Robinson, Oliver, and C. F. Smith; the last named gentleman taking his seat as the newly elected member for North St. Andrew's Ward.

HOSPITAL VACANCIES.

The first business was the filling of two vacancies in the Jesus Hospital, occasioned by the deaths of Mrs. Ann Atkin and Mrs. Mary Huntley. The following were the applicants:- Sarah Wilson, 58; Margaret Todd, 67; Margaret Atkinson, 61; Isabella Curtice, 71; Ann Donkin, 66; Ann Coltsworth, 74; Mary Angus, 75; Isabella Capstaffe, 72; Frances Atkin, 64; Elizabeth Blake, 66; Isabella Martin, 69; Jane Sutherland, 72; Sophia Martin, 70; Alice Dunn, 63; Margaret Wilkinson, 69; Ann Foggin, 56; Elizabeth Bell, 64; Margaret Hall, 69; Jane Jobling, 58; Jemima Ayre, 67; and Elizabeth Sweet, 58.

The candidates proposed were Isabella Capstaffe, by Mr. Ald. NICHOL; Mary Angus, by Mr. H. ANGUS; Sarah Wilson, by Mr. SCOTT; Isabella Martin, by Mr. MAWSON; Jane Sutherland, by Mr. HAMOND; and Margaret Atkinson, by Mr. BARKAS.

On the vote being taken, Isabella Capstaffe was elected to the first, and Sarah Wilson to the second vacancy; and the MAYOR declared to the successful applicants the result in the usual phraseology.

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL GRANTS.

Mr. MORRISON begged to ask whether the return he moved for on the above subject, in January last, had been prepared and was in a condition to be laid on the table.

Mr. Ald. BELL: Yes, sir, I have it here (producing it.)

Mr. MORRISON moved that it be entered on the records of the Corporation, so that it might become an official document; and that it be printed and circulated amongst the members of the Council.

This was formally agreed to. The return is as follows:

DONATIONS IN MONEY OR LAND.

1838.-Donation towards the building of St. Andrew's School...

...

Do. do. St. Nicholas' do. 312 square yards of ground at Walker were leased to the Trustees of a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel and School House at a ground rent of 2s. 6d. for thirty years; at the same rate fixed for other leaseholds, at that period, this rent would have been £ 1839.-Donation towards the building of St. John's National

1841,

1840.-Donation towards the building of St. Thomas' Schools
Do. repairing St. Nicholas' organ...
Do. painted window in All Saints' Church
About 460 square yards of ground at St. Lawrence were
conveyed to the Trustees of the Methodist Chapel
there for £110; the amount of the Surveyor's
valuation.

...

1846.-A conveyance was executed to Trustees of the United
Presbyterian Chapel, of 124 square yards of ground
fronting New Bridge Street, for £138, but there is
nothing to show the then value of the ground.
1847.-Donation towards repairing All Saints' Church...
1848.-Two acres of land at Walker were sold for £150, the
value put upon it then by the land agent of the Cor-
poration, for a Church, Parsonage, and Burial
Ground, the purchase money being afterwards
returned as a donation towards the building fund ...
1849.-Donation towards a clock in Gateshead Parish Church
1850.-Donation towards repairing All Saints' Church...
1851.-600 square yards of ground at Walker were leased to the

Trustees of the Church Schools at a ground rent of
2s. 6d. or 75 years; at the same rate fixed for other
leaseholds at that period, this rent would have been £5
Ground rents in fee are usually valued at twenty-five
years' purchase, and seventy-five years, according to
Inwood's Tables, being estimated at about one-nine-
teenth part less, the value of this saving of £5 may
be taken at twenty years' purchase, or

Increased to £26 5s. for 1867.

...

30 0 0

50 0 0 30 0 0 10 10 0

10 0 0

150 0 0 10 10 0 10 0 0

100 0 0

1852.-Two sites in Clayton Street containing 1,334 and 400 square yards respectively (together), adjoining St. Mary's Roman Catholic Chapel, &c., were conveyed to Trustees for £500. The amount of the Surveyor's valuation being £1 1s. per square yard.

1853.-626 square yards of ground in New Bridge Street were
conveyed to the Trustees of the Unitarian Chapel for

£626. There is no record to show the value of the
ground at that period.

1854.-1,768 square yards of ground at the Garth Heads, valued
at 7s. 6d. per square yard (£663) were conveyed for
a Ragged School, the purchase money paid was £200,
equivalent to a grant of £463. 500 yards additional
were added where a street was intended, £187 10s.
The purchase money was returned as a donation to
the building fund
1855.-Donation towards repairing All Saints' Church...
Donation towards stained glass window for All Saints'
Church

29

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

£ s. d.

850 10 0

1858.-Donation towards Royal Jubilee School for Girls,
returned out of £181 3s. 4d., the enfranchisement
value the amount paid for its enfranchisment being
£100
The site of George Stephenson's house, at Willington,
with ground adjoining, was conveyed for a Memorial
School, by way of voluntary grant, under the Act
5 Victoria. Estimating the value of the land (1,211
square yards) at £375, the Council contributed in
money's worth to the Schools the sum of
1859.-Remitted from the valuation of the Royal Jubilee School,
New Road, on the enfranchisement, £264 7s. 6d.
1860.-Donation towards the erection of a tower and steeple for
St. Peter's Church

...

...

10 10 0

81 3 4

375 0 0

114 7 6

1,200 square of yards ground in Bath Lane were sold for
the site of a Chapel and Schools, at 5s. and 7s. 6d.
per yard, or £362; the value at the time being
estimated at 10s. per yard, or £600; the price
charged was consequently equivalent to an abate-

ment of 1860.-A site (2,140 square yards) was sold in Jesmond Fields for the Clayton Memorial Church, for which the Trustees paid £535, the value put upon the ground by the Surveyor of the Corporation (5s. per square yard), and the Council afterwards presented a donation to the building fund of

Half the valuation remitted on the enfranchisement of
St. John's National School, Bath Lane. Valuation,
£124

1861.-Donation towards the erection of Christ's Church and Schools, at Shieldfield

...

1862.-Donation towards St. Michael's Church, at Byker
Donation towards St. Paul's Church, Elswick
1863.-A reduction from £500 to £200 was made in the valua-
tion of the Clergy Jubilee School, and Master's house
adjoining in Carliol Croft, which were enfranchised
for the latter sum. Value of grant equivalent to
A piece of ground in front of the Methodist Chapel,
New Road, was sold for £22 15s. The area of the
ground was twenty-one yards, with the frontage
into the street.

300 0 0

1864.-One acre, seventeen poles of land, at Walker, valued at £332, was sold for the site of a Roman Catholic Chapel, for £165. Value of the grant

Three acres of land were added to Walker Church Yard,
the burial ground for the district, for £150, the value
by the Surveyor being £726.

...

1865,-2,000 square yards of land at Walker, were leased for
seventy-five years, for a Presbyterian Chapel, Manse,
and Schools, at an annual ground rent of £7, the full
value being £20. This difference of £13 per annum
for the full term is equal, as before, to a present
payment of
St. James' Chapel, Blackett Street, and a scribe of
ground in High Friar Street were sold for (£117 and
£17 6s. 3d.) £134 6s. 3d. A covenant by the
Council, in the lease granted in 1824, to renew the
term for a hundred years (whereof thirty-five years
had expired) existed at the date of enfranchisement.
Union Day School, Bath Lane, with ground adjoining
(674 square yards), was enfranchised for £62. The
valuation being £124, the Trustees benefitted to the
extent of
368 square yards of ground in Bath Lane, adjoining the
Church, the site for an Orphanage School, were sold
at 10s. per square yard.

99

...

...

1865.-Two roods, fourteen poles of land have been agreed to be leased for seventy-five years for a Village Hospital, at Walker, at a rent of £5-one-half of its value. There has, therefore, been remitted, as above, a sum of

99

...

...

1866.-A site for a Methodist Chapel at Willington, (900 square
yards) was leased for seventy-five years, at a rental
of £5-being one-third of its estimated value if let
for building houses upon, thereby abating the ground
rent at £10 per annum, which, for the whole term, is
equal as above to a capital of
Granted a lease for seventy-five years of three-quarters
of an acre of ground, at Willington, for a Catholic
Chapel, Schools, &c., for £12 a year, being two-thirds
of its actual value, and equal as above to a capital of
Subscription towards the enlargement of Walker Church
Do
erection of a Church at Willington
1,900 square yards at Church Lane, Walker, for a
Mechanics' Institute, has been offered for £7 a year
during a seventy-five years' lease; the value being
£12 per annum. Value of the grant

...

The site of a Presbyterian Chapel, at Ballast Hills,
Willington, containing 1,000 square yards, has been
offered at an annual rental of £10.

The site for a Primitve Methodist Chapel at Walker,
containing 316 square yards, has been offered on a
seventy-five years' lease, at ground rent of £4 5s. 6d.

OTHER DONATIONS.

Annual subscription to the Natural History Society, since 1846. 1856.-Subscription to the Literary and Philosophical Society,

1867.-500 square yards of ground in New Bridge Street, near
the Weaver's Tower, have been agreed for by the
Trustees of the Mechanics' Institute, at half the value
of the ground, for
866 square yards of ground, near the Old Castle, have
been contracted to be sold, as the site of a Museum,
for sum of £1,000

...

...

...

...

£ s. d.

250 0 0

SHIPWRECKED ROYAL MARINERS' BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.

A letter was read from Mr. Mansfield, travelling secretary to this association, asking the Corporation for a subscription towards the funds.

Mr. Ald. NICHOL moved that the Corporation make a grant of £50. Mr. H. PARKER seconded the motion,

Mr. MORRISON objected. Ile said they were there to adminster the funds of the town, and such objects as these ought to be left to private charity. As an amendment he moved the previous question.

Mr. GREGSON opposed the amendment. That Corporation, representing a great seaport, would abrogate its duty if it did not cordially support the proposition.

Mr. Ald. PHILIPSON said it had always been customary for matters of this sort to be referred to the Finance Committee. He for one felt very great objection to such subjects being started at the moment without any previous notice; and he to a great extent concurred in Mr. Morrison's feelings. He thought at any rate the usual course ought to be adopted, and that the Finance Committee should report upon this matter, as they did upon everything else of the same kind.

Mr. GREGSON said this was not a case of seeking information. They had as much information as they could get from any source whatever. He had got two or three circulars, and he believed other gentlemen would have done the same, which was probably a great waste of postage stamps. (A laugh.) At the same time he did not see that any information could be got from the Finance Committee on a subject which was equally known to them all.

Mr. Ald. BELL: There is one thing the Finance Committee does know, and that is, whether you have got any money to pay the £50. (Hear, hear, and a laugh.)

Mr. NEWTON Seconded Mr. Morrison's amendment, and the application was referred to the Finance Committee accordingly.

MONEY BORROWED.

Mr. Ald. Bell moved that the Corporate seal be affixed to a bond for the borrowing of £1,000.

Mr. Ald. INGLEDEW: What's the interest?

Mr. Ald. BELL: The most favourable terms.

The motion was carried, nem. dis.