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Correspondence respecting the Parochial Charities. 57
THE PAROCHIAL CHARITIES.
The last of the following letters having been submitted to the Vestry at
their meeting held on the 3rd day of July, 1866, and the first and second
having then been read as introductory and explanatory thereof, the
Vestry—
" Resolved,
That the correspondence now read be printed in the Annual
Report of the Vestry now passing through the Press.
CORRESPONDENCE.
From the Charity Commissioners to the Rev. Dr. Allen, Rector of the Parish
of St. George the Martyr, Southwark.
Charity Commission,
8, York Street, St. Jameses Square, S. W.
10/A February, 1866.
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REV. Sir,
Soothwabk. St. George.—Parochial Charities.
The Commissioners have received an application from the Incumbent
of the new Parishes or Ecclesiastical Districts of St. Jude, St. Mary Magdalen, St. Stephen,
and St. Paul, which have been formed out of part of the original Parish of St. George,
requesting an order for the establishment of a scheme, whereby the benefits of such of the
Charitable Endowments established for the benefit of the old parish, as may be properly
divisible, may be apportioned to the new parishes.
The request seems to the Commissioners to be fair and reasonable; and, in the event of
their receiving a sufficient application, (as hereinafter explained) they would propose to
exercise their jurisdiction by making an order directing that the nett income of each
Charity to be affected thereby, should be divided by the present Trustees into a stated
number of equal parts, and that certain fixed shares should be paid by them to Trustees in