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[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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Part of this sum, £253 17s. 7d. Consols, produces
£7 12s. 4d. per annum. This is annually distributed by the
Rector and Churchwardens to the poor of the Parish.
Another part, £253 17s. 7d. Consols, produces
£7 12s. 4d. per annum. "With regard to this, the Board
of Charity Commissioners for England and Wales, have
made an order, appointing the Rector and Churchwardens,
and their respective successors, Trustees, during the
tenure of their several offices, to administer the Charity.
The dividends accruing are directed 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 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 28th September,
1835 (proved the same year), gave afreehold house in Staffordstreet
("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.
New 3 per Cents., realizes £2 8s. 8d. per annum.