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MISCELLANEOUS.
The following matters of a miscellaneous nature
have been under consideration during the year:
Vote of Thanks to the Ex-Mayor and Mayoress.
On the 31st of November, 1906, a resolution was
unanimously passed, thanking Mr. James Joseph Rayner Green
for the valuable services he had rendered to the Borough during
his Mayoralty; and a resolution was also passed cordially
thanking the Mayoress, Mrs. Mary Helen Green for the kind
and gracious manner in which she had assisted the Mayor in
the important public and social duties of his position during
his year of office.
Presentation Portrait.
At the Meeting of the Council on the 25th July, 1906, a
portrait of the then Ex-Mayor, Alderman Joseph Morris Levy,
painted by Mr. J. Solomon Solomon, A.R.A. was presented to
that gentleman by the Mayor, 011 behalf of the Members of the
Council. Alderman Levy, having thanked the donors, asked
the Council to accept the j>ortrait for hanging in the Council
Chamber, and the gift was accepted.
Roll of Honour.
In response to a requisition received from an influential
meeting of burgesses held at the 1'own Hall on the 14th
January, 1907, the Council on the bth March, 1907, resolved to
institute a Roll of Honour in which are to be inscribed the
names of persons of distinction, and of any persons who have
rendered eminent services to ihe Borough. The Council has
framed rules and regulations for keeping the Roll, one of which
provides that the names of persons to be inscribed on the Roll
shall be only such as the Council may, from time to time, direct
by resolution, passed by the vote of a majority of at least two
thirds of the Members of the Council, at a Meeting of the
Council specially convened for the purpose, of which seven
days' notice shall be given.
Sir \\ illiam Bull (the Borough Member) has kindly undertaken
to have specially made, and to present to the Council, a
suitable book in which to inscribe the names.