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APPENDIX.
PARISH OF LEWISHAM
COrY AWARD FOR THE DIVISION INTO WARDS AND THE
APPORTIONMENT OF VESTRYMEN.
I, William Dure ant Coopek, of Guildford Street, in the county of
Middlesex, Esquire, having been duly appointed by the Right
Honourable Sir George Grey, Baronet, one of Her Majesty's Principal
Secretaries of State, by virtue of an Act passed in the last Session
of Parliament, intituled " An Act for the Better Local Management
of the Metropolis," to be one of the persons to set out the wards
into which certain parishes are by the said Act directed to be
divided, and to apportion the number of vestrymen to be elected for
such parishes respectively among such wards, and to apportion the
number of vestrymen to be elected for any parish already divided
into wards under any local Act, and, further, to act separately in
such division and apportionment from the other persons appointed or
to be appointed to perform those duties under the said Act, have
proceeded in the performance of the duties required by the said Act
to be executed by me, in reference to the Parish of Lewisham, including
Sydenham Chapelry (being a parish mentioned in Schedule
(B.) to the said Act, containing more than 2,000 rated householders,
and not already divided into wards under any local Act), and to
determine and set out the number, extent, limits, and boundary
lines of the wards into which the said parish is to be divided, and to
apportion among such wards the number of vestrymen to be elected
for such parish:
Now I do hereby, by virtue of the provisions and directions of the said
Act, divide the said Parish of Lewisham, including Sydenham Chapelry,
into three wards, none of which contains less than 500 rated householders,
to be called respectively No. 1, or Blackheath Ward, No. 2, or Sydenham
Ward, and No. 3, or Lewisham Ward ; and I determine and appoint that the
said ward to be called No. 1, or Blackheath Ward, shall consist of so much
of the said parish as lies north of a line drawn from the east boundary of
the parish, at the point where it adjoins the parishes of Lee and Charlton,
running westward along the centre of the London Boad to the point where
the Parish of Lewisham adjoins the Parish of St. Paul, Deptford; and that
the said ward to be called No. 2, or Sydenham Ward, shall consist of so
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