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Adulterations were detected in 13 cases, viz.:— 4 cases of milk
(the proportion of added water being from 10 to 42 per cent.) 2 of
cocoa, 2 of coffee, 1 of vinegar, and 4 citrate of magnesia. Summonses
in respect to these cases were heard before the magistrates, when
convictions were obtained in 6 cases, and fines and costs inflicted
amounting to £40 7s. fid., all of which have been recovered.
Lammas Rights.
Metropolitan
Asylums Board
Wharf
The Solicitor having reported that the Metropolitan
Asylums Board had enquired whether in the event of
Lammas Rights being sustained the Vestry would accept compensation
in respect of their property, the Vestry, on the 30th March, 1892,
resolved that the Board be informed that the Vestry would accept
compensation.
The Solicitor having on the 3rd August, 1892, reported
hereon, as follows:-
FULHAM VESTRY ats. HARWOOD.
I have carefully perused and considered the letters from Mr.
Sherry, of the 14th ult., and from Messrs. Last and Sons of the
22nd ult., and I am of opinion that the compensation mentioned
in both those letters is not such as your Committee would be
justified in recommending the Vestry to consider, as the actions
have been defended, for the purpose of acquiring open spaces for
the use of the public, and I think the County Council and others
of the public might well complain if the Vestry were to receive
mere compensation for the loss of their rights in lieu of those
open spaces.
I think, however, that your Committee might well recommend
to the Vestry to agree to an Order of the Court as proposed by
Mr. Sherry, provided that if the Vestry are successful in the
actions, and if Lammas Rights be established, then the Arbitrators
are to award to the Vestry, by way of compensation for the
enclosure proposed to be made, such a sum as will enable the
Vestry to purchase, in an equally convenient place within the
parish, a plot of ground prescribed as an open space for ever,
equal in area to the plot of ground to be enclosed, and also for