This court, as already observed, consists of the lord mayor, aldermen, and representatives of the several wards; and being the city legislature, make bye-laws for the good government thereof; they assemble in , as often as the lord mayor by his summons thinks proper to convene them; they annually select from among themselves a committee of aldermen and commoners, for letting the city lands. They likewise appoint the following committees, viz. aldermen and commoners, for letting the bridge-house estates; aldermen and commoners, for transacting the affairs belonging to the benefactions of sir Thomas Gresham, the lord mayor being always of the number; aldermen and commoners for improving the navigation of the river Thames; aldermen and commoners as a committee of control over the coal and corn meters; aldermen and commoners as a committee for general purposes; the lord mayor and certain of the aldermen, together with commoners, as a committee for improvements within the city, and the same for improving the port of London. They also, by virtue of a royal grant, yearly appoint a governor, deputy, and assistants, for managing the city lands in Ireland. They have also a right of disposing of the offices of town-clerk, common-serjeant, judges of the sheriffs' court, common pleader, common crier, coroner, bailiff of the borough of , comptroller, remembrancer, solicitor, clerk of the peace, registrar of the mayor's court, clerks of the court of requests, comptroller of the bridge-house, water-bailiff, clerk of the works, coal meters, keeper of and assistants, clerk at the bridge-house, collector of the city dues, clerks of the coal market, and keeper of the Green-yard.