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and expressed the dissatisfaction felt by the late Trustees
with the administration of the Craven Pest House Charity,
and several Vestrymen and Ratepayers attended and
expressed their views with respect to this, Le Quainter's and
other Charities. The Report of the Commissioners had
not been issued at Lady-day last.
CHARITIES.
Le Quainter's Charity.
The only Charity which i.s administered by the Vestry is
that known as Le Quainter's, which arose from a bequest
in I782 by Mr. Peter Le Quainter, formerly a resident in
Piccadilly. He directed that the income should be
"equally distributed at Christmas amongst twenty poor
persons who are or have been housekeepers in the Parish,
and such as the Rector and Churchwardens and the other
gentlemen for the time being who shall compose the Vestry
of the said Parish of St. James, shall deem to be proper
objects, and the most deserving to partake of the same."
The income from the Charity amounts to nearly £300, and
application for forms of petition should be made to the
Vestry Clerk, at the Vestry Hall, early in the month of
October.
As mentioned in previous reports, the Vestry some time
since adopted a number of suggestions, made by a Special
Committee appointed to consider the subject of the future
administration of this Charity, but were waiting the
consent of the Charity Commissioners to the contemplated
alterations. The Commissioners had deferred the consideration
of the matter until after the contemplated inquiry
into the history and work of the administration of the