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(4) The Clerk in Orders shall not be entitled to
perform any of the duties of his office, or to
receive any of the profits and emoluments
thereof, until he shall have formally
accepted office by signing his acceptance
thereof in the following form:—
I, A. B., hereby accept the office of Clerk in Orders of
the "Parish of St. George, Hanover Square,
"London, upon and subject to the above written
"conditions, and I hereby undertake to observe
"the same accordingly."
The Rector having subsequently nominated the Rev. E.
Payne, M.A., to the office, the Vestry approved of the nomination,
and appointed Mr. Payne to be Clerk in Orders of
the Parish, upon the conditions entered above.
South-Western District Post Office of London
Extension Scheme.
A Parliamentary plan and notice were deposited in
November 1879, on behalf of Her Majesty's PostmasterGeneral,
of an intended application to Parliament for an Act
to empower him to take land, &c., to extend the Southwestern
District Post Office at Buckingham Gate.
The plan showing that power was to be taken to extend
the Post Office over a portion of the public way in Stafford
Place. The Vestry petitioned Parliament against the Bill,
which was subsequently introduced into the House of
Commons, on the ground that the proposed encroachment on
the public way was objectionable in principle, and detrimental
to the interests of the public. The Post Office
authorities then communicated with the Yestry, stating that,
under the powers proposed to be obtained by the Bill, the
building frontage to the footway, between Stafford Place and
Buckingham Palace Road, will be set back, thus increasing