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they proceeded to ascertain the opinions of the ratepayers as to whether or not the
Public Libraries' Acts should be adopted in this parish, by the issue of a voting paper
to each ratepayer and the subsequent collection and scrutiny thereof as directed by the
40th and 41st Vic., cap. 54, sec. 1. The number of voting papers issued by the
Overseers was 5384 of which 922 could not be delivered and 550 could not be
collected. 1361 were returned in blank and 133 were rejected for informality, leaving
2418 as the number of ratepayers voting on the question, of this number 1589 voted in
favour of the adoption of the Acts and 829 against, leaving a majority in favour
760. The Overseers beg to submit their accounts of the expenses incurred by them in
taking the Poll, and request that the Vestry will sanction the payment thereof as
provided by Sec. 83 of the Public Libraries' Act, 1855.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
(Signed) JAMES J. STOKES,
To the Vestry of Rotherhithe. Vestry Clerk.
The Vestry gave their sanction to the payment by the Overseers of the sum of
£36 10s being the expenses incurred by them in taking the Poll, under the Public
Libraries' Acts.
On the 6th March, 1888, the Vestry elected the following Gentlemen Commissioners
for carrying into execution in the Parish of Rotherhithe, the "Public
Libraries' (England) Acts, 1855 to 1887, viz. The Rev. Edward Josselyn Beck and
Messrs. John Bulmer, Robert Leishman Stuart, Edmund Rumney Smith, John Reeson,
Henry Lovel Bartlett, Henry Hayward, Lawrence Stevens, and George Mabbs.
The Queen's Jubilee, 1887.
On the 8th February, 1887, at a Special Meeting, called for the purpose of
considering as follows, viz.:—A letter received from Sir A. Abel, the Organizing
Secretary of the Imperial Institutes of the United Kingdom, the Colonies and India,
with copy letter addressed to the Lords' Lieutenants of the United Kingdom, on the
subject of the National Memorial of the Jubilee of Queen Victoria's Reign, it was
unanimously
"Resolved, that an humble address be sent from this Vestry to Her Majesty the
"Queen, congratulating Her on having attained the 50th year of Her Reign."