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Queen's
Diamond
Jubilee.
Considerable gratification was felt by the Vestry and
inhabitants of the parish generally on learning that the
Royal Procession on the occasion of Her Majesty's Diamond
Jubilee Celebration would pass along Borough High Street, Borough
Road, and Westminster Bridge Road, in the Parish. A Special Committee
has been appointed to carry out all matters relating to the
demonstration affecting this Parish only, including any arrangements
it may be deemed advisable to make in connection with the Yestry
Hall.
Staff.
Vestry Clerk's
Department.
Mr. J. A. Johnson, the newly appointed Yestry Clerk,
entered upon his duties on the 15th April, 1896.
During the months of June and July, 1896, a Sub-Committee
appointed by the General Purposes Committee considered the question
of the duties devolving on the various clerks composing the Yestry
Clerk's Staff, and at the meeting of the Vestry on the 14th July, 1896,
the Committee brought up a report containing revised duties to be
allotted to each of the clerks in the department. Among the principal
recommendations were that Mr. T. Brown should be appointed
Accountant to the Vestry, that the Prime Cost Clerk should at once
be transferred to the Yestry Clerk's department, and that these two
officials, together with another clerk, should deal with the accounts of
the Yestry and Charities; that the Overseers' work should be oarried
out by two clerks, and that the work of keeping the minutes and
correspondence of the Vestry and Committees should be done by the
Committee clerk, assisted by the clerk who was then partially
employed in the Sanitary Department. The latter olerk has since
resigned his position.
On the 6th October, 1896, the Vestry appointed a Special Committee
to consider and report on the present salaries paid to the
clerks, and instructed the Committee to bring up a scheme to avoid
the constant applications for increases of salary. The reference to the
Committee was subsequently enlarged to include not only the salaries
but also the emoluments and duties of the clerks employed in the
Yestry Offices. The Committee presented a report containing a