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and clauses inserted therein as may be necessary for the protection
of the rights, property, and interests of the ratepayers of the
Parishes represented by your petitioners, and of the Metropolis
generally, and that such other relief may be afforded to them in
the premises as to your Honourable House may seem meet.
And your petitioners will ever pray, &c.
Minutes of Proceedings at a Meeting of Delegates from the Parishes
of Kensington, Lambeth, Newington, Wandsworth, Putney, Clapham,
Tooting Graveney, Streatham, Battersea, Chelsea, St. James'
Westminster, Hammersmith, Fulham, Greenwich, Deptford, Woolwich,
Limehouse, Wapping, Shadwell, Ratcliffe, Lewisham, Penge,
Plumstead, Eltham, Kidbrooke, and Lee, appointed to watch the
proceedings in Parliament of the Metropolitan Board of Works,
held at the " Gray's Inn Coffee House," Holborn, on Friday, the
8th day of May, 1857,
Richabd Rot, Esq., of Kensington, in the Chair.
Resolved,
1. "That this meeting unanimously recommends that the 'Finsbury
Park Bill' be opposed in Parliament, and that a Petition be presented by
each Vestry and District Board of "Works, in the spirit (as far as the same
apply to the views and requirements of each Vestry and District Board) of
the petition presented by the Kensington Vestry."
2. " That a Committee be appointed to oppose such bill, and to carry
out the above resolution; that such Committee do consist of the following
representatives of the undermentioned Vestries and Boards, with power to
add to their number; that Mr. Theodore Martin, of New Palace Yard,
Westminster, bo and he is appointed Parliamentary Agent, and that the
sum of £15 be subscribed by each Vestry and Board towards defraying the
expenses incurred or to be incurred in opposing the said Bill."
Committee.
Richabd Rot, Esq., Kensington
Albebt F. Jackson, Esq., Wandsworth
G. B. Richardson, Esq., Greenwich
John Henderson, Esq., Woolwich
J. F. South, Esq. Plumstead
Joseph Cbookes, Esq., Hammersmith
John P. Rydeb, Esq., Chelsea.
3. "That the Committee be invited and is authorised by this meeting
to consider and report upon any other matter laid before them by Mr.
Hawkes, or that may be taken in Parliament affecting the interest of the
ratepayers."
4. And "That a copy of the resolutions passed at this meeting be at
once sent to each Vestry and District Board of Works in the Metropolis,
and that their consideration be invited thereto."