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advisers. These gentlemen reported in favour of the design of
Mr. H. H. Collins, and this report was approved by the Special
Committee appointed to consider the matter and unanimously
adopted by the Vestry. Mr. H. H. Collins was accordingly
appointed Architect, and tenders for the erection of the building
upon quantities taken out by Messrs. Gardiner, Son, & Theobald,
of 110, Great Russell Street, were invited from seventeen firms
of builders, each of whom sent in a tender. Certain modifications
were subsequently made in the quantities, and the tender of
Mr. Mark Gentry, of 2, Wormwood Street, in the City of London,
to carry out the work on the revised quantities for the sum of
£5,573 was accepted. The land upon which the building is to
be erected is held on lease from Sir Richard Francis Sutton, Bart.,
for the term of 63 years from the 24th June, 1885, at a grouud
rent of £50 per annum ; the original ground rent of £75 having
been reduced by Sir R. F. Sutton in consideration of the object
for which the building was to be erected. The building is
designed to comprise 23 single room tenements, 12 two-room
tenements, two rooms for the caretaker, and a general wash-house
and work-room. The work is commenced in the hope that it will
benefit the poorer of the labouring classes in the parish, to
an ever increasing extent, as the surplus rents admit of an extension
of the operations of the Trust.
BILLS IN PARLIAMENT.
Anionthe Bills that have received attention during the
O
year are the following:—
Session 1896.
London Sea Water Supply.
London County Council (General Powers).
Public Buildings (London).
Polling Arrangements (London).
Shops (Early Closing).
Steam Engines (Persons in Charge).
Criminal Law Amendment.
Local Government (Qualification of Voters).
London Valuation.
Education.