Wm. Camac.
Wm. Duke.
Wm. Longley.
Edward Milward.
John Smith (stonemason).
Thomas Daniel.
John Manington.
George Stonestreet.
Arthur Deudney.
George Duke.
Wm. Edwards.
Jonathan Mose.
Griffen Stonestreet (clerk)
Wm. Warden.
Chas. Frederick Mott.
Wm. Thorpe.
Wm. Ellis.
Frederick North.
Henry Thwaites.
John Eaton.
Samuel Nash.
Richard Tutt.
Thomas Reeve Emary.
Thomas Phillips.
George Tutt.
James Emary.
John Phillips.
Thomas Thwaites (sail-maker).
Thomas Foster.
John Plummer.
Edward Furmer.
Peter Malaperte Powell.
John Tree.
Matthew Fagg.
George Robinson, the elder.
John Thwaites.
John Gill.
John Townsend.
Hickman Godlee.
George Robinson, the younger.
Webster Whistler (clerk)
Richard Harman (over-seer).
Thomas White.
Wm. Ransom, the elder.
Abraham Wood.
Joseph Hannay.
Wm. Ransom, the younger.
John Williams, the younger.
John Hide.
Thomas Curtis Hutchinson
Wm. Ridley.
Edmund Weekes.
John Russell.
Humphrey Wickham.
Francis Henbury.
Richard Harman (Inn-keeper) .
Anthony Harvey,
John Goldsworthy Shorter.
Stephen Welfare.
Wm. Winter.
Wm. Lucas-Shadwell.
Wm. Wellerd.
Wm. Scrivens, the elder.
Nicholson Harris Wimble.
Wm. Scrivens, the younger.
Sir Walter Waller, Bart.
George Jackson.
Wm. Wallinger (clerk).
John Inskipp.
George Strickland.
Chas. John Jeudwine.
Chas. Lavender.
Benjamin Standen.
Wm. Standen.
James Lansdell.
John Smith (baker)
and William Blivers Wallis.
Together with twenty-one persons to be elected in manner hereafter mentioned, and their successors to be appointed, the provisions hereinafter contained, shall be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners for carrying this Act into execution, and shall be called "The Commissioners for the improvement of the Town and Port of Hastings."
Under this Act powers were obtained "to cause the Stream of Water, called the Bourne, or such part thereof as they think requisite, to be contracted, paved, and covered over, and otherwise improved. Also to establish the Market in George Street, to provide Fire Engines, for the better paving, lighting by gas or oil, and cleaning the town, and to improve streets, to provide waterworks, and other matter." Under this Act of George IV. the Corporation received the right to levy a duty of 2s. 6d. per ton on Coals sold within the Borough, the abolition of which has recently engaged the attention of the Corporation.
In the first Edition of this Book this right was attributed to the Charter of Queen Elizabeth in error.- Author.)
Another Act was passed in the second year of the reign of William IV., intituled " An Act for better paving, lighting, watching, and otherwise improving the Town of St. Leonard, in the County of Sussex ; " the said Town of St. Leonard being included within the boundaries of the said Borough, so fixed as aforesaid, etc. St. Leonard was then governed by Commissioners. Their names being : J. Burton, H. W. Browne, Col. Jeffries, R. Deudney, R. Shepherd, J. Wells, H. Stapleton, T. Thorne, J. Rock, T. J. Breeds, Howard Elphinstone, B. Homan, E. Farncombe, W. Norsworthy, -
