St. Leonards, 1857. Chapter LVII
Commissioners' Meetings
The Commissioners present at the first quarterly meeting on the 25th of March, were Messrs. A. Burton (in the chair), Wagner, Ogle, Carey, Smith, Southall and J. Harwood. The transactions at that meeting were the resolutions to pay £270. 5s. 5d. as a half year's interest to the Royal Exchange Insurance Office; also £147. 16s. 10d. for a half year's gas, less £15 allowed for the Commissioners finding their own posts. £1. 12s. 7d. was to be paid for six copies of an Act of Parliament. Mr. John Smith was to be paid for repairing the se wall, and William Smith's tender was accepted to find horses for water-carts and men to pump at 1/6 per hour. Mr. Smith produced a new scale of charges for flys instead of the fares then being charged.
An offer of Ground. At the quarterly meeting on June 24th, the Commissioners accepted Mr. Burton's offer of a piece of ground lying between the then St. Andrew's Church (originally Quadrangle Chapel) and the West-hill road. At the same meeting was ordered a composition of coal tar and tur-
