[Post 1st Jan. 1853]. Note from Jas.Paul to E.Roberts, Esq., enquiring when certain...

[Post 1st Jan. 1853]. Note from Jas.Paul to E.Roberts, Esq., enquiring when certain persons paid their loans.

6th Jan. 1853. Fred: Thynne to J.F.Maddock, asking for particulars of sale.

10th Jan. 1853. Geo. Cram at Chester to E.Roberts, Esq., desiring to purchase a piece of ground from the Corporation between the Holyhead Railway and the River at the end of his building yard, as he is about to lay down some large vessels. He wishes to buy rather than take a lease because of the expence of building a river wall and erecting buildings.

10th Jan. 1853. Printed summons for a Monthly Council meeting to be held on Friday next, with a note of business. Manuscript notes have been added showing which measures were adopted, etc.

13th Jan. 1853. John Philpot from 20 Montague Street, Russell Square, to J, Finchett Maddock, re St. John's Hospital, sending a copy of minutes of an order made on the petition for carrying out the compromise, The money is to be paid into court on 12th Feb.

20th Jan. 1853. Sam. Davis to Mr. Jones. The Town Clerk had had no answer yet respecting the money proposed to be borrowed. Mr. Broadhurst was to have written to him weeks ago to say the money could not be advanced on such security.

21st Jan. 1853. John Philpot to J.Finchett Maddock concerning the investment of the "Holyhead money".

24th Jan. 1853. Fred: Thynne, from 11 Gt. George St., Westminster, to J.Finchett Maddock concerning the investment of the "Holyhead money". As none of the lots in which he is interested are disposed of at Hough Green adjoining the Curzon Park road, he asks whether the land adjoining the road may be sold or leased to Lord Howe without any conditions of houses and buildings being erected.

24th Jan. 1853. Thos.Poole, printer, from Cross, Chester, to J.Finchett Maddock concerning the investment of the "Holyhead money". He could not attend the last sale of land at Hough Green and would be obliged if Committee would call another sale.

29th Jan. 1853. Notice to Edward Roberts from Town Clerk, to attend the Corporate Estate Committee on Monday next -- with note from Ed. Roberts, dated 31st Jan. to Mr. Paul, asking him to state to the committee that several gardens in Tower Field will be vacant from 2nd Feb. and that he has not had a single eligible application. If the committee do not wish to cultivate them with provender for the horses perhaps the Surveyor would set up boards with notices that they are to be let.

31st Jan. 1853. Wm.A.Rowland, plumber, 46 Crane Street, to the Chairman of Corporate Estate Committee. Mr. P.Ducker is giving up garden No. 54 in the Tower Field on 2nd Feb. and he applies to take it at a moderate rent for the benefit of his health.

2nd Feb. 1853. John Hughes from 57 Mill St., to Messrs. Aspinall & Son. He apologises for not replying to the letters sent by Mr. Maddock and asks for a few days longer to settle his account. With envelope.

5th Feb. 1853. John Greenwood from the Treasury, to the Town Clerk, returning draft mortgages, from the Corporation to Searancke and to Done, for engrossment.

5th Feb. 1853. R.Dutton to J.F.Maddock. He is advised by his solicitor, Mr. Broadhurst of Nantwich, that a mortgage on the Corporate property is not such security as can justify a Trustee in advancing the money, so he cannot consent to Mr. Jones' proposition.

8th Feb. 1853. J.Fischer, from R.Mint, to E.Roberts, stating that they are at present out of farthings but the application by the Town Council has been registered. With envelope.

9th Feb. 1853. John Philpot to J.Finchett Maddock concerning payment into court re St. John's.

n.d. Notice of motion from Jno. Hope for the Council meeting on 11th Feb.- that the Improvement be requested to furnish a list of all the streets or parts of streets within the Borough which have been laid out and formed since the year 1825 and to specify therein those instances in which the requirements of the Improvement Act have been carried out. And to report further whether the Improvement Act contains any clauses for preventing the erection of dwelling houses in confined situations.

25th Feb. 1853. Frederick Potts at Chester to the Chairman of Corporate Estate Committee re the removal of some of the trees growing along the Rope Walk between the Suspension Bridge and Mrs. Williamson's house.

26th Feb. 1853. William Dawson from Saltney, applying to purchase a small piece of land there, adjoining that lately purchased by him.

3rd March 1853. Peter Wright from Liverpool to William Wardell, Esq, Chester, recommending Mr. Benjamin Drury, the principal warden of their borough gaol, for the post of Governor of the Gaol of the City of Chester, which he understands is in the gift of the Magistrates.

3rd March 1853. John Rubie, Policeman No.501, from London and N.W.Railway, Huyton Lane Station, near Liverpool, to John Finchett Maddock, sending information concerning the family of H.Nelson Ting, from Cork, mentioned in the Police Gazette of the 2nd inst. as wanted for felony.

7th March 1853. Geo. Palmer from Birkenhead to the Mayor and Magistrates of Chester, applying for the post as Governor of the City Gaol.

10th March 1853. Harry from 98 Belgrave Terrace, Everton Road, Anderick (?) to 'Jim' [James Paul?]. Personal news.

7th March 1853. Frederick Livesley Peter Fogg from Hulme, Manchester, to the Mayor and Magistrates, applying for the post of Governor of the City Gaol.

8th March 1853. Similar application to Frederick Livesley Peter Fogg from William Shone, from 86 Watergate Street, Chester.

10th March 1853. Jas.Arnott from Guildhall, Newcastle on Tyne to J.F.Maddock, informing him that the Governor of the Gaol is there appointed by the Sheriff of the town and county.

10th March 1853. Wm. Dunn (?) from Lancaster, to J.F.Maddock, informing him that they have no Borough Gaol within Lancaster but use the County Gaol under a contract with the County.

11th March 1853. Town Clerk, Bristol, to J.F.Maddock, stating that the Governor of their City Gaol is elected under the provisions of a Local Act, by the Sheriff with the assent of the Magistrates.

11th March 1853. L.C. Tarn for the Town Clerk, Hull, to J.F.Maddock. The Sheriff of the Borough and County of Hull appoints his own gaoler by 14 Ed:3.c.10. The Magistrates appoint the Keeper of the House of Correction under 4 Geo.IV.cap64. In practice the Sheriff appoints his gaoler, then recommends him to the Justices for the appointment as Keeper of the House of Correction. The powers the Town Council has are by 5 & 6 Will.4.c.38 &c. but the great check on the Justices they have by 1 Vic.cap.78 & 38 by which they confirm all orders for expenditure and approve salaries.

12th March 1853. John Gidley, Town Clerk of Exeter, to J.F.Maddock. The Corporation appointed the Governor of the City Gaol prior to the Municipal Reform Act, since when no appointment has taken place, under the powers of a local Act for building the Gaol, but the power of appointing a Gaoler was vested in and exercised by them before this Act.

14th March 1853. Geo.Harding from Priory, Carnarvon, concerning the death of his wife and settling the balance due to Thomas Jones.

19th March 1853. Fred: Thynne from 11 Gt. George St. Westminster, to J.Finchett Maddock. Lord Howe is willing to take a lease of the ground at the rent named provided he may have a ninety-nine year term.

24th March 1853. John Philpot to J.Finchett Maddock, concerning records relating to St. John's Hospital. The case re the City Gaol is with Mr. Welch.

1st April 1853. John Varley for Saml. Varley from Stanningley nr. Leeds, to J.Finchett Maddock. He will forward the grey prison cloth required in 10 days.

3rd April 1853. Tho. Hepworth for J.P.Fearon, from 21 Great George Street, Westminster, to Edwd. Roberts, Esq., suggesting a meeting to discuss his analysis of the Corporation's proposed terms of compromise in Attorney General v. Corporation of Chester.

4th April 1853. Thomas Clare at Chester, asking that application be made to the Lords of the Treasury to allow him to exchange lots 19 & 20 on the plan for 37 & 38 as marked on the plan and as agreed to by the Corporate Estate Committee.

4th April 1853. Henry Maddock to Corporate Estate Committee offering to give up his shop in the Exchange as he has taken another, on the conditions he states.

5th April 1853. John Walker from the Clerk of the Peace's office, to the Chairman of Finance Committee asking if he may order a book

11th April 1853. Letter from the Office of Assessed Taxes, Chester, to J.F.Maddock, asking him to cause Mr.Wm.Hope to send the parchment duplicates of Land and Assessed Taxes for the year just closed, to him for examination and transmission to Mr. Inspector Williams.

27th April 1853. John Philpot to J.F.Maddock re St.John's rentals.

6th May 1853. Meadows Frost at Chester to the J.F.Maddock, asking for the enclosed to be inserted in the notices calling the Council together next week. With:-

6th May 1853. Notice of motion - that the Treasurer be instructed to produce at the next monthly meeting of the Council a financial statement of the Corporation properly ...... that all negotiations for loans be suspended, & all propositions for leases be deferred until after the debate on the financial statement.

30th May 1853. James Hodges to J.Royle, Chairman of Corporate Estate Committee, enclosing a memorial from the Committee of the Deva Cricket Club.

6th June 1853. Printed Report by G. Tibbits to the Committee on the Public Records of the City of Chester.

28th June 1853. Printed summons to attend a Special meeting of the Council at the Assembly Room, White Lion Hotel, Northgate Street, on Monday next :- to consider Report of the Exchange Building Committee as to providing additional accomodation in the Lock-ups and Police Offices.

29th June 1853. Marrey Kendrick from Bangor, asking for some money to be sent.

30th June 1853. Ed. Roberts from the Exchange, Chester, to W. Edwards, giving information about premises at the Old Crane for which Mrs.R. Green pays £1 a year. Pencil note "Find Lease."

1st July 1853. John Philpot from Montague Street, to J.F. Maddock re costs in St. John's Hospital Suit.

8th July 1853. Wm. Hankey from Lower Bridge Street to Edwd. Roberts, Treasurer, asking that application be made to the Council for the proprietors of a property in Watergate St. to purchase the freehold.

18th July 1853. Note, from Exchange, re ommission of a receipt for rent in 1852.

29th July 1853. Henry Ratham, Churchwarden, at Chester, to Jno. Finchett Maddock sending a copy resolution of a Vestry meeting in the Church of St. John the Baptist, rejecting a communication from Finchett Maddock re the steps from St. John's Churchyard into the Groves.

30th July 1853. Evan and Mary Davies from Bangor to their brother and sister asking for £2 more money. Receipted: 2nd Aug. 1853. Joseph Adams.

1st Aug. 1853. Dimmock & Burley from London, to J.F.Maddock concerning drains for premises which some clients have on a 21 year lease in Chester.

5th Aug. 1853. John and Jos. Huxley from King Street Brewery, to Mr. Baylis, City Surveyor, giving him notice to lop the overhanging branches of trees facing their house lately built in the Groves.

5th Aug. 1853. Portion of envelope addressed to John Trevor, Esq., Chester, with pencil note of motion:- to call the attention of the Council to the necessity of the appointment of additional Charity Commissioners.......

n.d. Notice of motion from John Jones, draper, to J.F.Maddock:- to discontinue the payment of £5 yearly to the Rector of Trinity Church.

11th Aug. 1853. Memorial from Edward Peters of 103 Eastgate Street, to the Mayor and Council for confirmation of the alterations to his shop under the Row sanctioned by Improvement Committee.

15th Aug. 1853. W.J.Dixon, Hon.Sec. from the Committee Room, Hop Pole Inn to John Walker, Esq., Deputy Town Clerk, for the Committee of the Regatta to erect seats and refreshment booths - the races terminating at Boughton Fords.

22nd Aug. 1853. John and Joseph Huxley at Chester, to the Chairman of Corporate Estate Committee for the rope walk before their property in the Groves to be discontinued and a portion of the trees cut down, and desiring permission to erect a landing place. Pencil note added "Not to be read."

29th Aug. 1853. David Roberts from Dee Views, complaining that a resolution of the Council concerning repairs in Sandy Lane has not been implemented.

26th Aug. 1853. H.Waddington from Whitehall, to the Mayor. As the Queen's train to Holyhead is to stop at Chester the Address of the Corporation may be presented at her carriage window.

30th Aug. 1853. Notice from Inland Revenue, London, for division of Bucklow, for a meeting at Court House, Knutsford, on 10th Sept.1853, for choosing Commissioners. of Taxes, 31st Aug. 1853. Covering letter for the above. Thomas Rough, Inland Revenue, Somerset House, London, to J.F.Maddock

With envelope addressed to J.F.Maddock, Clerk to Commissioner of Taxes, Chester. "Alteration in notice as to meeting".

1st Sept. 1853. Charles Townshend at Chester, to Mr. Baylis agreeing to pay £5 towards the £11 to be spent by the Council in lowering and renewing the roadway under Mr. Harrison's portico.

6th Sept.1853. Jas. Rogers, agent for Minera Life Assurance and District Fire Insurance Co.s. concerning the effect of laying a main sewer nearby, on 10 cottages in Trafford Street, Newtown, belonging to Mr. Rich. Farebrother and the expence to which he had been put.

14th Sept. 1853. From Thomas Finchett Maddock. If the treaty for the loan of £2000 with the Hand in Hand Society is broken off, his client is willing to advance the sum at 4½%.

20th Sept. 1853. F.Walker Jones from Carnarvon to John Walker, Esq., Deputy Town Clerk, fixing Friday 28th Oct. for the revision of voters' lists for the Borough of Chester.

4th Oct. 1853. Jas. Paul to John Rogers, sending him the form of order re the works to be executed next year, for approval.

7th Oct.1853. John Hicklin from Queen's Park sending notice of motion: that a Committee be appointed to consider and adopt such measures as may seem most expedient and effective for securing to the inhabitants of Chester an abundant supply of pure water.

13th Oct. 1853. G.Tibbits, forwarding his account for arranging and classifying the City Records, which took 105 days (at 6 hours to the day).

[For 14th Oct.1853] Motion from H.Platt: to request the Old Gas Company to remove the posts, brackets, etc., from the public streets and sites which they now occupy, within fourteen days from the present Council meeting.

For 14th Oct.1853. Notice of motion from Jno.Hope: that the Treasurer be requested to append to his annual statement of account, the Auditor's report of the Improvement Lamp and Watch rates: and a brief explanatory statement of the following special accounts - Baths and Wash-houses, Cattle and Hide Markets, Exchange repairs, Little Roodee payment to the Crown, and the annual compensation to the Guardians of the Poor.

20th Oct.1853. Henry Fitzroy, from Road Office, London, to the Clerk to the Commissioners for Paving, Etc, under Local Act, asking for a return of the General Statement of Income and Expenditure for the past year. With envelope addressed to John F.Maddock, Esq. and form for return.

5th Nov. 1953. R.S.Culley from the Electric Telegraph Company, Manchester Station, to the Chairman of the Grand Stand Committee, proposing to replace the poles and wires on the Chester Course by wires buried in the earth.

8th Nov. 1853. Letter from the War Office to the Deputy Town Clerk, acknowledging a notice from the Clerk of the Cheshire County Lunatic Asylum, informing them that the cost of maintaining the pensioner there will increase from 9s. to 12s.6d. per week.

10th Nov. 1853. Circular letter from Roderick Impey Marchison, Chairman of the Royal Geographical Society, to the Mayor of Chester, solliciting support for honouring the memory of Lieut. Bellot of the French Navy, who was recently lost in his second voyage with British seamen in search of Sir John Franklin.

12th Nov. 1853. William TowrzLaw for the Universal Electric Telegraph Company, asking for support for legislation to constitute the town of Chester one of the Company's stations.

(Received 14th Nov. 1853) Memorial from five members of the Council (signed) to the Mayor, asking him to call a meeting to consider a Council resolution on the report of the Water Supply Committee.

17th Nov. 1853. Temple from Cheadle, on circuit, to John Walker, Esq., Deputy Town Clerk, apologising for his absence from a Special meeting of the Council on Tuesday next, 22 Nov.

21st Nov. 1853. Meadows Frost at Chester, to John Walker, Esq., Deputy Town Clerk, excusing himself from Council meeting.

21st Nov. 1853. J.F.Mathew to John Walker, Esq., Deputy Town Clerk, excusing himself from Council meeting.

21st Nov. 1853. Mr. Johnson from Eaton Road to John Walker, Esq., Deputy Town Clerk, excusing himself from Council meeting.

[22nd Nov. 1853] Mr. Whaley from the Albion Hotel to John Walker, Esq., Deputy Town Clerk, excusing himself from Council meeting.

24th Nov. 1853. Copy resolution of Council: that it is altogether inexpedient to take any further proceedings in the matter of the water supply.

26th Nov. 1853. Newspaper cutting: advertising the letting of Market rents. With m/s note of biddings.

30th Nov. 1853. Henry Fitzroy from Whitehall, to the Town Clerk, a circular letter asking for a return of the number of Municipal Electors on the Burgess List for the year 1853-4.

3rd Dec. 1853. Notice of a question to be put to the Deputy Town Clerk at the Council meeting on 9th Dec, concerning clause 2 of the 5th & 6th Victoria chap.104 concerning the pecuniary interest of any member in matters coming before the Council, and giving notice to submit a motion consequent thereupon. Signed John Rogers.

5th Dec. 1853. Notice of motion of S.J.Roberts (for meeting on 9th Dec) with respect to the state of public lighting.

n.d. (for meeting of 9th Dec) Motion of John Rogers: that the Mayor do not attach the Corporate Seal to any Petition for a Bill to construct new water works and that no further proceedings be taken in the matter.

n.d. (for meeting on 9th Dec) Pencil note [faded] of a motion by the Mayor for fixing the Police Office with gas.

n.d. 1853. Memorandum for Mr. Paul asking that he call a meeting of the Committee to whom the Highfield Lease was referred for Friday morning at a ¼ to 11 at the Savings Bank.

7th Dec. 1853. Report by James Dickson, at the request or the City Surveyor, on the rows of lime and other trees in the Groves.

15th Dec. 1853. Specification (signed B.Baylis) for painting and whitewashing the Market.

29th Dec. 1853. John Greenwood from the Treasury, to Town Clerk, asking why an alteration has been made in the extent of the parcels, since the drafts to J.Peacock and S. Peacock were approved on behalf of the Treasury.