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Court of Chancery against the Scheme. This authority was given,
and the necessary steps are being taken to prosecute the appeal.
17. Alderman Hewett, and Councillors Anderson and Garrett,
Junr., whose term of office expired on the 10th October last, were
re-appointed the Council's representatives on the Committee of
Management of the Weir Hospital Trust for the current year.
18. In September, 1908, a letter was received from the
Putney Charity Commissioners suggesting that, in view of
Charities. small endowment of the Putney Pest House
Charity, so large a body of Trustees as at present was not necessary
and that the body should consist of the Rector and the Ward
representatives, that a scheme should be made to effect this alteration,
and to vest the legal estate of the Charity in the Official
Trustees of Charity Lands. This Council concurred in the opinion
that the present Body of Trustees is too large, and recommended
that the Trustees should be the Vicar and Churchwardens, exofficio,
and nine persons to be appointed by the Councillors for the
Putney Ward. The Charity Commissioners have not yet made
any order in the matter.
19. In January, 1909, the Charity Commissioners proposed to
Streatham establish a scheme for varying the scheme regulatCharities.
ing non-ecclesiastical charities of Streatham, so
as to provide that the number of pensioners may be increased if
and as the charity permits, and that the receipt of Poor Law
medical relief shall not disqualify a person from being an almsperson
or pensioner of the Charity. The matter is under
consideration.
20. Councillor Campbell was re-appointed a Representative
Wandsworth Trustee of the Wandsworth Consolidated Charities
Chanties for four years from the 13th April, 1908. In October,
1908, it having been reported to the Council that Alderman Lorden
being no longer resident in Springfield Ward there was a vacancy
as a Representative Trustee for that Ward, and that there was a
vacancy for the Southfield Ward in consequence of the death of
Alderman Rucker, the Council, on the 4th November, appointed
Councillor Wise a Representative Trustee for the Springfield
Ward, and Alderman Lorden a Representative Trustee for the
Southfield Ward for a period of four years.