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St George (Southwark) 1868

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, The Vestry of the Parish of St. George the Martyr]

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Dickinsons Charity.
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DICKINSON'S CHARITY.
According to a statement of the Informant's Solicitor (John P. Fearon, Esquire), it
appears that the property of the Charity consists of premises situate in Northumberland
Alley, City, which according to the account passed by the late trustees are let to a Mr
Jones at the rent of £45 per annum, and of a sum of £304 Is. 9d. which having been paid
to the Official Trustees of Charitable Funds, pursuant to the direction of the Court, has
been by them invested for the benefit of the Charity.
SCHEME for the future management and regulation of Thomas Dickinson's Charity,
and for the application of the income thereof.
1. The charity and the lands and property thereof shall be under the management and
control of the incumbents and churchwardens for the time being respectively of the several
parishes of St. Sepulchre, St. Giles-without-Cripplegate. St. Olave, Soutliwark, and St.
George, Southwark.
2. The legal estate in the lands belonging to the charity shall be vested in the Official
Trustee of Charity Lands, and the funds of the charity shall be transferred to the Official
Trustees of Charitable Funds, in trust for the charity.
3. The trustees may appoint during pleasure a fit and proper person to be their clerk
and receiver of the rents an d income of the charity, and may allow him as a stipend any
sum not exceeding £5 per annum, or they may appoint one of themselves, who may be
willing to undertake the duties gratuitously, to execute the said office, and may allow him
such a sum as he may expend for assistance in executing such offices.
4. The duties of the clerk shall be to attend the trustees at the meetings, and to enter
the minutes of the proceedings at such meetings; to attend and give information to any
committee that may be appointed by the trustees; to keep the accounts of the charity, and
to furnish and send such duplicates or copies thereof as the trustees may by law be from
time to time bound to supply; to preserve, subject to the directions of the trustees, all
vouchers for payments made by the trustees on behalf of the charity; to make out once in
every year a detailed account of the receipts and payments of the charity during the preceding
year, which shall be vouched and passed before the trustees at their annual general
meeting, and also a statement of the assets and liabilities of the charity, if any; to mate
out an abstract of such account; and to perform all such other duties appertaining to the
office of clerk in respect of the charity and the management thereof as the trustees stall direct.
5. The duties of the receiver shall be to collect and receive the rents and income of the
charity property, and to pay the same to the bankers of the trustees; to see that the