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of refuse being made in the meantime The purchase of these
materials, together with a quantity of permanganate of potash, cost
the sum of £38 Is Ad
On the 27th November the Roads and Depot Committee reported
that in its opinion the time had arrived for the Vestry to have the
right to drain the pond water into the stream on the boundary of
the estate originally offered to the Vestry, also to provide this Depot
with a small furnace for destroying vegetable and other offensive
matter, as at Longfield ; and recommended that the question of the
expediency of acquiring additional land should be referred to a
Committee of the whole Vestry, having regard to the inquiry into
Depot matters then in progress The Vestry agreed to this, and on
the 11th December adopted the two following recommendations
submitted by the Committee of the whole Vestry :—
That the remaining portion of the Sevenoaks Estate offered to the Vestry
for sale in the year 1891, viz 20 acres, with a house let at £20 per
annum, be purchased for £2,300
That the Sevenoaks Depot, with the adjoining 20 acres of land agreed to
be purchased, be mortgaged to secure the repayment of £2,500 by
annual instalments of £500, with interest at 4 per cent, per annum on
the balance from time to time remaining unpaid, the first of such
instalments to become due on the 25th December, 1896
In submitting the agreement for purchase to the Vestry for
sealing on the 19th February 1896 the Clerk read the following
explanatory report, when the agreement received the seal of the
Vestry: —
It will be remembered that in order to secure the land at Sevenoaks
lying between our Depot premises and the stream the Vestry agreed
to mortgage the whole of the estate for £2,500, by a repayment of
£500 per annum for 5 years, with 4 per cent interest on the balance
for the time being remaining unpaid
Some legal question having been raised as to the Vestry's power to
mortgage, I have arranged for Mrs Murdock, the lady finding the
money, to take up the conveyance from the Sevenoaks Estate
Company for £2,300 and enter into an agreement with the Vestry
to Bell the land to them at the same price, accepting payment in four
instalments of £500 each at Christmas in each year and the last
instalment of £300 at Christmas 1900, with interest at 4 per cent
on the balance from time to time remaining unpaid By this
arrangement the present Depot premises remain in the Vestry's
possession unencumbered