At the Court at Buckingham-Palace, the 5th day of February 1845, PRESENT, The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. THIS day the Right Honourable Sir George Clerk, Bart. was, by Her Majesty's command, sworn of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took his place at the Board accordingly. Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased to appoint the Right Honourable James Earl of Dalhousie, and in his absence the Right Honourable Sir George Clerk, Bart. President of the Committee of Council appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations. At the Court at Buckingham-Palace, the 3d day of February 1845, PRESENT, The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. WHEREAS by an Order in Council, bearing date the third day of September last past, reciting, that, by an Order in Council, dated the fourth day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, reciting therein, among other things, an Act, passed in the sixth year of His late Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to "provide for the regulation of municipal cor"porations in England and Wales;" and further reciting, that Nathaniel Richard Clarke, Esq. and Richard Wildman, Esq. the barristers appointed pursuant to the provisions of the said Act, to revise the burgess' and councillors' list of the city of Lincoln, in the then present year (the said city of Lincoln being one of the boroughs included in schedule A), did, within sixty days after the passing of the said Act, in due manner, determine and set out the extent, limits, and boundary lines of the wards of the said borough, according to the provisions of the said Act, and what portion of the said borough should be included therein respectively; and the said barristers, after the division of such borough into such number of wards as is directed by the said Act, and within the said period of sixty days, did, in due manner, apportion among the several wards of such borough the number of councillors mentioned in conjunction with the name of such borough in the said schedule, and the said barristers had duly transmitted a copy of the particulars of the number of councillors so assigned to the several wards of the said borough to one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, in the words following, that was to say: "City of Lincoln. "We, Nathaniel Richard Clarke and Richard Wildman, being the barristers appointed by virtue of the Statute of the fifth and sixth of His present Majesty, intituled "An Act to provide for the "regulation of municipal corporations in England and Wales," to revise the lists of the citizens of the city of Lincoln, do, by virtue of such appointment, hereby divide the said city into two wards, to be called the Minster Ward and Bridge Ward, respectively, and do hereby determine and set out the extent, limit, and boundary lines of the said wards, and the portions of the said city to be included therein, respectively, as follows, that is to say: "The Minster Ward shall comprise and consist of the parishes and places under mentioned, that is to say, Saint John, Newport; Saint Nicholas; Saint Paul; Saint Mary Magdalene; Saint Margaret, with the Palace-precinct; Saint Peter, in Eastgate; Saint Michael; and Saint Martin : "And the said ward, to be called the Bridge Ward, shall consist of the parishes and places under mentioned, that is to say, Saint Peter, at Arches; Saint Swithin; the Liberty of the Monks; Saint Benedict; Saint Mary le Wigford; Saint Mark; Saint Peter, at Gowts; and Saint Botolph; and we do hereby apportion nine councillors to each of the said wards; and further reciting, that the division and assignment so made by the said barristers appeared to be, in certain particulars, liable to objection; therefore His Majesty, by advice of His Privy Council, did thereby disapprove of such determination of the said barristers, and of the number of councillors so assigned to each ward of the said city; but, nevertheless, His Majesty, by the advice aforesaid, did order that the particulars of the divison and assignment so made by the said barristers should be published in the London Gazette, in order that such force and validity might be given thereto as is authorised and directed by the said Act. And such first-mentioned Order further recited, that it was deemed expedient to remove the objection which existed to the said division and assignment so made by the said barristers, who were thereupon directed to determine and set out afresh the extent, limits, and boundary lines of the said wards into which it is provided by the said Act that certain boroughs should be divided, and especially as to the said city of Lincoln; and further reciting, that the said Nathaniel Richard Clarke and Richard Wildman, the said barristers appointed in pursuance of the provisions of the said Act, had determined and set out afresh the extent, limits, and boundary lines of the several wards into which it was expedient that the said city of Lincoln should be divided, and the town councillors thereof; and the said barristers had duly transmitted a report of the particulars of the number of councillors so reassigned to the several wards, in the words following: "We, Nathaniel Richard Clarke and Richard Wildman, being the barristers appointed by virtue of the Statute of the fifth and sixth of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An 'Act to provide for the regulation of the municipal corporations in England and Wales,' to revise the list of citizens of the city of Lincoln, having, by virtue of such appointment, divided the said city into two wards, and such division not having been approved of by His said late Majesty, and we having been duly required further to consider and inquire into the circumstances, do, upon such further inquiry and consideration, humbly report to Her Majesty the Queen, that it will be expedient to divide, and we do, therefore, hereby divide, the said city into three wards, to be called the Upper Ward, the Middle Ward, and the Lower Ward, respectively, and do hereby determine and set out the extent, limits, and boundary lines of the said wards, and the portion of the said city to be ineluded therein respectively, as follows, that is to say: "The Upper Ward to consist of the parishes of Saint Paul; Saint Mary Magdalene; and Saint Margaret, with the Palace-precinct, in the Bail and Close; and Saint John, in Newport; Saint Nicholas, in Newport; Saint Peter, in Eastgate; and Saint Michael: "And the Middle Ward to consist of the parishes of Saint Martin, Saint Swithin, and the liberty of the Monks : "And the Lower Ward to consist of the parishes of Saint Peter, at Arches; Saint Benedict; Saint Mary le Wigford; Saint Mark; Saint Peter, at Gowts; and Saint Botolph : "And we do hereby apportion six councillors to each of the said wards: "And we recommend the under-mentioned councillors to be assigned to the under-mentioned wards, respectively, that is to say, John East, Joseph George Doughty, Thomas Newton, Charles Ward, Henry Williams, and Robert Swan, to the Upper Ward; John Sharpe, William Parry, Robert Dawber, Michael Penistan, William Marshall, Edward William Rudgard Rudgard, to the Middle Ward; and Thomas Michael Keyworth, Richard Sutton Harvey, Richard Whitton, John Key, George Calder, and Anselm Odling, to the Lower Ward: "As witness our hands this thirty-first day "N. R. Clarke. "Richard Wildman." And Her Majesty, by the advice of Her Privy Council, did thereby approve of the proposed alteration and re-division of the said wards, and of the number of councillors re-assigned to each, respectively, as set forth and recommended in the last above-mentioned report of the said barristers, and did order the same to be published in the London Gazette accordingly. And whereas by a further Order in Council, bearing date the seventh day of October last, whereby it was ordered, that the last herein beforerecited Order, of the third day of September last, should be revoked and annulled, and which Order of revocation was published in the London |