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Authority has been obtained from the Metropolitan
Board of Works to raise by loan, for the purchase of plant,
a further sum of £2,455. For full Statement of Outstanding
Loans, see page 136.
The Vestry hope that hereafter arrangements may be
made for the removal of the house refuse by Parish horses
and carts to the Wharves, and from thence by barges.
Trinity Chapel Site Charity.
It was stated in the last Annual Report that the
Judgment of Mr. Justice Fry in favour of this Parish in
this suit was appealed against by the Authorities of St.
Martin-in-the-Fields. The appeal was heard before the
Lords Justices on the 11th and 14th November, 1881, and
was dismissed with costs.
Their Lordships considered that the premises were no
longer required for a chapel, and consequently added to the
Judgment of the Court below a direction that a Scheme
should be carried into Chambers for the administration of
the Charity. This course will be very advantageous to
all parties, as it will probably obviate the necessity and
expense of an Act of Parliament. The Lords Justices also
decided that the general public were not interested in the
scheme, and added a Declaration that the Charity property
is held for the benefit of the inhabitants of the ancient
Parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields as it existed in the year
1690, or some of them, and that such Declaration was to be
without prejudice to the claim of St. George's, Hanover
Square, to exclude the present Parish of St. Martin from the
benefit of the Charity, or of the present Parish of St. Martin
to participate therein.
The Vestry have been in correspondence with the
Authorities of St. Martin's Parish with a view to preventing
further costs being incurred in hostile litigation. This has