At this meeting, a committee of twenty-one gentlemen was appointed to consider of the plan proposed by the Mayor, and to make a report, to a future general meeting, of the result of its opinion. This committee had several meetings, in which it very minutely investigated the subject submitted to its consideration: it employed proper persons to estimate the expence of paving a particular district, and stationed men at fourteen entrances into the city, to ascertain the actual number of carriages, horses, &c. of every description, which passed and repassed during a week, that a fair calculation might be made of the expence to be incurred, and of the funds to meet it. The result of the labours of this committee was laid before a general meeting of Inhabitants, on the 3d of March following, in a report, which stated the expediency of applying for an Act for the following purposes: I. To empower a Deputy Mayor to be appointed in certain cases. II. To empower the Mayor, or the Deputy Mayor, with one Justice, to adjourn the Sessions in the absence of the Recorder and Steward. III. To better regulate the watch. IV. To better light the city. V. To better regulate the sweeping and cleansing of the city. _£_ The present expence of lighting 632 of watching 550 of sweeping 700 1882 The future expence, under the new regulations proposed by the committee, Lighting 840 Watching 730 1770 Sweeping 200 would amount to a saving of 112 And on a supposition that scavengers would undertake the sweeping, &c. for the produce of the muck, the saving would be £312. VI. To new pave the city. The expence of the new pavement, with foot paths on each side of the streets, the middle of the streets crowning, and the removing of all obstructions, was estimated at £55,000, on an actual survey and valuation, made by Messrs. Stannard and Athow; and this estimate was, in the opinion of Mr. Hamerton, an eminent Paviour in London, very fair and correct. To defray such an apparent heavy expence, the committee, proposed levying a toll on carriages, horses, &c. coming to and going from the city, in the following proportions: _d._ One horse 0½ Cart with one horse 1 Cart with three or more horses 1½ A one-horse chaise or gig 1½ A waggon 2 A four-wheel carriage 2 A score beasts, &c. 2