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APPOINTMENT OF LIBRARY COMMISSIONERS.
At the first meeting of the Vestry a report was received from the
Board of Churchwardens and Overseers, to the effect that the result of
the poll of the Parish on the question of the adoption of the Public
Libraries Acts, had resulted in a majority of 1,814 in favour of the
adoption of the Acts. The Yestry then proceeded to appoint the
following nine persons as the first Commissioners for Public Libraries
and Museums for the Parish, viz.:—Rev. T. G-. Gardiner, M.A., Mr.
A. Hawkins, Mr. T. Haynes, Mr. T. Hunter, Mr. E. W. Knight,
Miss Busk, Mr. Emary, Mr. James Pascall, Mr. G. Pocock. The
Commissioners at once proceeded to take steps for the acquisition
of a site for the erection thereon of the Public Library Buildings,
the cost of which Mr. Passmore Edwards had so kindly promised to
defray.
School Board The question of the revision of the School Board
Divisions Electoral Divisions in the Metropolis was considered by
the Yestry on two occasions, and each time a resolution
was adopted approving of the principle of the substitution of the
Parliamentary Divisions for the present cumbrous School Board
Electoral Divisions. A bill was subsequently promoted by Sir John
Blundell Maple in the House of Commons having this object in view,
but was rejected on second reading, Parliament preferring to adhere
to the present system of cumulative voting.
Bye-Laws. On the 14th May, 1896, an election was held to supply
the places of one-third of the members of the Vestry retiring
by rotation, and to fill vacancies which had occurred during the last
year. At the first meeting of the newly-constituted Yestry, after
the appointment of Chairman and Committees, a Special Committee
was formed to consider the bye-laws regulating the procedure of the
Vestry. The Committee revised the existing bye-laws and submitted
them for approval at the next meeting of the Authority. The byelaws
were then adopted and confirmed at the following meeting,
and have, on the whole, been found to work very satisfactory.
city & South. London Railway bill.
This Bill, which was promoted by the City and South
London Electrical Railway Company, had for its object
granting of power to the Company to construct a duplicated