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and. keep a journal of all subjects brought under their cognizance;
and one of them to be resident in the Village of Lewisham, and the
other in the Village of Sydenham. Proposed salary, £80 a year
each.
The Surveyor and Assistant Surveyors to keep books for the entry
of all works done, men employed, and materials used, and when
and where.
Mr. Alderman Eagleton was appointed Treasurer of the Board,
and £1,000 Consols was, as security for the due performance of the
duties of the office, invested by him in the names of three Members
as Trustees for the Board.
Advertisements were issued inviting candidates for the offices of
Clerk, Medical Officer of Health, Surveyor, and Inspectors of
Nuisances, and the following persons were appointed to the offices
on the terms proposed:—
Mr. O. C. T. Eagleton, Clerk.
„ F. E. Wilkinson, Medical Officer of Health.
„ W. H. Treverton, Surveyor.
„ John Duncan, ) Inspectors of Nuisances and Assistant
„ Luke Skeet, Surveyors.
And Mr. Edwards (to whom the preparation of this Report has
been entrusted) was, on the nomination of the Clerk, authorised by
the Board, as his Deputy, to give the attendance at the office,
required by the Act, for the transaction of the ordinary business of
the Board.
Subsequently James Burton was appointed foreman of the road
labourers, at £1 1s. per week; and Mr. Perry and his wife were
appointed Messenger and Housekeeper, at £1 per week. Mrs. Perry
has been retained in the office of Housekeeper, at 12s. per week,
since the death of her husband in August, the office of Messenger
having been shortly afterwards discontinued.
As regards the appointment of a Scavenger for the removal of
dust and rubbish from the district, it was originally proposed to
have one for Sydenham and Penge, and another for Lewisham and
Blackheath; but it was subsequently considered undesirable to
appoint such an officcr, except for the portion of the district lying
north east of a line from the parish boundary at Honor Oak to and
including Beckway's Cottages, between Perry and Catford Hills,
and north of a line drawn from the same Cottages, running east
through Cockshead Farm House to the boundary of the district
adjoining Lee Parish.
This contract was submitted to public tender, and was let to Mr.
B. Parks for a year from the 24th February, he paying the Board
£10 for the privileges the appointment conferred. This arrangement
has, however, proved unsatisfactory to each party, and also,