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Place (Lawson Street), the new name selected being "Iris Place"
The Council was also asked to issue orders for renumbering the
houses in Manor Place and Tatum Street
A number of the street name tablets in the parish having become
weatherworn and partially obliterated, the work of rewriting them
was entrusted in February 1896 to Messrs Strong & Fripp at the
contract price of 1s 9d per tablet
Local Government Act, 1894—The petition to the Local Government
Board referred to in the last Annual Report (p 115), praying for
the transfer to the Vestry of the right to appoint overseers and the
powers and duties of the Governors and Guardians, Burial Board,
Library Commissioners and Baths and Washhouses Commissioners,
was sealed by the Vestry on the 1st May 1895, after a copy had
been sent to every member The petition ran as follows:—
To
The Right Honourable Geohoe John Shaw-Lefevke, the President of
the Local Government Board
The petition of the Vestry of the Parish of St Mary,
Newington, in the Administrative County of London, under
their Common Seal
Sheweth—
1 That in the year 1768 a Local Act (10 George 3rd, cap 72) was
passed intituled " An Act for dividing certain Commons or Wastes
" in the Parish of St Mary, Newington, commonly called
" Newington Butts, in the County of Surrey, and disposing of the
" same for the benefit of the Poor of the said Parish" The Parish
at this period being burdened with a numerous and expensive Poor
it was considered that it would be an advantage to the Parish and
to those interested in the Commons or Wastes, if the Common or
Waste called Lorrimore, otherwise Lattamoor, otherwise Lowermoor,
containing about sixteen acres of dry land and about three acres
covered with water, was allotted to the Lords of the Manor (the
Lean and Chapter of the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of
Christ, Canterbury) and to their Lessee free from all Common
Right which might be claimed by any other persons in lieu of the
Right and Interest of the said Dean and Chapter, and their Lessee
over the other of the said Commons or Waste ; and if the other of
the said Common or Waste called Walworth Common, containing
forty-eight acres or thereabouts, was also freed from Common
Right and enclosed and let, and the produce thereof appropriated
for the benefit of the Poor of the said Parish For putting this
Act into execution the Rector and Churchwardens for the time