Rubie transferred from Saunder's to Parker's School & Banks to take Saunder's
Although the Commissioners, under their new Act undertook the management of some of the town's requirements that might have otherwise been the work of the Corporation, the latter still retained the control of many of their heretofore duties. On the 21st of January they appointed Mr. George Rubie master of Parker's School, the same to be re-opened on Feb. 4th. Mr. Rubie, in the interim had resigned the mastership of Saunder's School to which, Mr. John Banks was appointed, as the only candidate, on the 28th of February. A new school-house for the last-named charity was designed in the parish of All Saints, and on the 21st of March, the sum of £139. 9s. having been recovered from the Court of Chancery, it was ordered that £44 9s. 9d. borrowed money be paid to Mr. North, and then, after the cost of application being paid to the solicitors, the balance be applied to the erection of the school-room. Mr Banks entered into agreement to occupy Saunder's new school-room at a nominal rent.
A previous schoolmaster, Mr. James Thorpe had died and left a widow and two sons, the youngest of these, named Frederick was apprenticed with the Saunder's Charity to William Shaw, a confectioner. The Corporation also agreed to pay half £500, the contract price of a new stone groyne which the Commissioners intended to erect at Rock-a-Nore. The heavy gales and high tides, however, which commenced on the 19th of October, entirely destroyed the work, and on the 24th, the Commissioners reported that it was inexpedient to re-construct it.
Among the transactions of the Corporation during the year were the following orders:- The Mayor, jurats and commonality to assemble quarterly; the owners of Beach Cottages to pay for the parade in front of their houses; Francis Henbrey not having complied with a previous order, to be proceeded against; George Prior and William Jordan to pay each £20 for the beach enclosed by them, and George Anstey, Esq., owner of the easternmost house to be applied to for a like amount; and in the event of non-compliance, proceedings to be taken against each. At a later meeting, it was ordered that proceedings against Jordan be suspended, and Mr. Anstey to be requested to remove the barrier to the public at his end of the parade. It was further resolved that Mr. Banks prepare a map of the stone-beach from the ship-yard adjoining Beach Cottages to the East Well. The Town Clerk reported that he had searched for entries relating to the three rope-shops which Thomas James Breeds intended to convert into dwelling-houses, but owing to the loose way in which the records were kept 30 to 60 -
