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7. The Council at its Meeting on the ioth October, resolved
Address to the
Mayor.
unanimously :—
' I hat the best thanks of the Council be given to Councillor Alexander
Glegg, J.P., for his able, courteous, and impartial conduct in the Chair,
and for the time and attention bestowed by him in the discharge of his
duties as Mayor of this Borough."
8. The General Purposes Committee were instructed to prepare
an address expressing the Council's high appreciation of
Councillor Glegg's services, and the following address was
accordingly engrossed, framed, sealed with the common seal of
the Council, and presented to Mr. Glegg at the Meeting of the
Council on the 9th November, viz. :—
Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth.
Population. Area. Rateable Value.
296,020 9,221 acres. ^ji>935»i6i.
To Alexander (Jlisgg, Ksq., J.P.
We, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors of the Metropolitan
Borough of Wandsworth, desire, upon your retirement from the Office of
Mayor, to express our high appreciation of the valuable services which
you have rendered to the Borough during the year of your Mayoralty,
November, 1905—November, 1906.
The Distress Committee established under the Unemployed Workmen
Act, 1905, is much indebted to you, as its Chairman, for your constant
attention, and for the sound judgment and knowledge of industrial matters
which you brought to bear upon the difficult questions with which the
Committee had to deal. Owing in a great measure to your exertions an
Open-air Bathing l.ake has been constructed on Tooting Common in this