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St George (Westminster) 1875

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]

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The sum of £253 17s. 7d. is invested in Consols, which
produces £7 12s. 4d. per annum, and is distributed by the
Rector and Churchwardens to the poor of the Parish.
And a further sum of £253 17s. 7d. in Consols, which
produces £7 12s. 4d. per annum, with regard to which,
the Board of Charity Commissioners for England and
Wales, have made an order, appointing the Rector and
Churchwardens Trustees, during the tenure of their several
offices, and their respective successors, to administer the
Charity, and the dividends accruing are to be applied for
the benefit of such poor people residing in the Parish,
with preference to those who reside in the vicinity of
Grosvenor Chapel, or in case any ecclesiastical district
shall be hereafter assigned to the said Chapel, the income of
the Charity is to be applied for the benefit of the resident
poor of such district.
Tomlinson's Charity.
Mr. Matthew Tomlinson,by will, dated 28 th September,
1835 (proved the same year), gave a freehold house in
Stafford-street ("Goat" P.H.), and the accruing rent
therefrom, that his Executors should annually clothe four
poor men and four poor women in this Parish, and likewise
three poor men and three poor women of the Parish of St.
Martin-in-the-Fields; one of the Overseers of the Poor of
each Parish to have access to the accounts of the Trustees.
The poor persons to be clothed on the day of the month
on which the Testator died.
This Charity is in the hands of five Trustees. The
house realizes £75 per annum, and a sum of £81 10s. 3d.
is invested in New 3 per Cents., which realizes £2 8s. 8d.
per annum.