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to act until Easter Tuesday in every year, when the inhabitants in
Vestry assembled fill up these vacancies by confirmation or otherwise.
The inhabitants at the same meeting and under the same
section are also required to nominate and choose twelve persons in
the room or stead of twelve of the old Governors and Guardians
thereby required yearly according to the priority of their election
to go out of office. By section 40 of this Act the Governors and
Guardians were invested with all the powers and authorities of
Overseers of the Poor touching or concerning the relief or management
or employment of the Poor or the application of any rates
made for their use and maintenance, and by section 57 of the said
Act the inhabitants assembled in Vestry on Easter Tuesday in each
year were required to nominate eight substantial householders to
serve the office of Overseers of the Poor, and to cause a list of such
persons to be delivered to the Justices of the Peace for the County
of Surrey at the next ensuing Petty Session, for the said Justices
to appoint four of the said eight persons, when such four persons so
appointed were required to act as overseers until the Easter Tuesday
following and until the Petty Session then next following, when
four other persons should be appointed in manner explained in their
stead, and these four persons, together with the Churchwardens for
the time being, were to be deemed Overseers of the Poor of the
said Parish and were required respectively to take upon themselves
the office of Governor and Guardian of the Poor of the said Parish.
4. That in the year 1851 a further Local Act (14th Vic. cap. 7) was
passed intituled "an Act for altering and amending the Walworth
"Common Inclosure Act, 10 Geo. 3 cap. 72; for authorising a partition
" of the Walworth Common Estate; for incorporating the Governors
" and Guardians of the poor of the Parish of Saint Mary, Newington,
"in the County of Surrey, and for enabling such Governors and
" Guardians to erect a new Workhouse; for altering and amending
"the Acts 54 Geo. 3, cap. 113, and (a) 1 Geo. 4, cap. 41, relating to
" the said parish and for other purposes," whereby the Governors
and Guardians appointed under the Act 54 Geo. 3 cap. 113 were
incorporated and made one Body Corporate by the name of "The
"Governors and Guardians of the Poor of the Parish of Saint Mary,
"Newington, in the County of Surrey " with a common seal, and
had power to take, purchase and hold lands, tenements and hereditaments
for the purposes of the said Acts 10 Geo. 3 cap. 72 ; the Act 54
Geo. 3 cap. 113, and of this Act 14 Vic. cap. 7. By section 5 of this
Act all property belonging to and held by or upon trust for the
Governors and Guardians of the Poor acting under the provisions of
the said recited Local Acts became vested in the Governors and
Guardians as thereby incorporated.
(a) This was a Local Act for dividing the Parish of St. Mary, Newington. into
three separate parishes or Ecclesiastical districts, and for building two new
churches, viz. Trinity Church and Saint Peter's Church.