1816 Reports From Committees

Description

Folding Maps, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Very Scarce

A very scarce set of five volumes, containing the reports of the House of Commons on various subjects for the year 1816, including minutes and financial reports. 

The Prime Minister in 1816 was the Tory Robert Jenkinson, the 2nd Earl of Liverpool. These volumes provide an insight into his time as Prime Minister and his proceedings, Jenkinson was Prime Minister from 1812 to 1827, a pivotal time in English' history; he took over after the assassination of Spencer Perceval, and he stepped into the role at a time when the Napoleonic Wars were at full force. He is the third longest-serving Prime Minister in British history.

This set contains; 

Volume IV, with one folding table. Including: minutes of evidence on education of the lower orders in the metropolis and the corresponding report; poor laws of the kingdom; poor and charitable donations; insolvent debtors acts, 53 & 54 under George III;  affording accomodation for the court of chancery; African forts, on the annual vote of money; Caledonian canal,on estimate for augmenting the usual grant; Crinan canal, on papers and estimate; Highland roads and bridges, on the estimate; game laws; tithes, whether proprietors may grant leases.

Volume V, with five folding tables. Including: police of the metropolis; mendicity in the metropolis; pavement of the metropolis.

Volume VI, illustrated with two plates. Including: State of Laws relating to the manufacture of leather; first, second, and third report on seeds and wool; first, second, and third report of minutes on madhouses; report of the lords of the committee of council on coins; progress made in carrying the act for a new post-office into execution, and notes on the money advanced, being £30,000.

Volume VIII, illustrated with one folding map. Including: thirteenth report on the Caledonian canal; second report on the military roads and bridges in Scotland; London and Holyhead by Chester; Holyhead harbour, with a plan of the harbour; courts of justice; so far as relates to the court of chancery, duties, salaries and emoluments; 1st, 2nd, and 3rd reports on jury court in Scotland; first report on courts of justice in Scotland; herring fishery, for the year ending 5th of April 1815; illicit distillation in Scotland, two reports of the chairman of the board of commissioners; Berbice, report and papers of the commissioners appointed for the management of the crown estates in that colony.

Volume XIII, with three folding tables. Including a total of seventy-one reports, including: His Majesty's Mint; Paper Relating to the Civil and Military Offices in the Colonies of St. Lucia, Tobago, Berbice, Demerara & Essequibo, and Isle of France; Accounts of Estimate for the year 1816 for the British Museum; account of foreign gold, sworn off before the Lord Mayor, between 1760 and 1816; unclaimed dividends and lottery prizes; account of bank notes in circulation on Saturday night in each week of the year 1797; account of the total nominal value of forged notes, presented at the Bank and refused payment, for the last four years.

Each report has a separate title page and pagination.