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Report of the Auditors appointed under the Local Government Act, 1894.
WE, Frederic James Bartholomew, William James Brett, George Robert Hood,
Harry Moore, and William Taylor, the Auditors appointed under the provisions of the
Local Government Act, 1891, to examine and audit the Accounts of the Vestry of the Parish
of Rotherhithe, for the year ending 25th March, 1898, having carefully and diligently
examined and investigated the Accounts of the said Vestry for the period aforesaid, and the
Vouchers in support of same, and the Books, Papers, Instruments and Writings in their
custody or control relating thereto, do hereby certify and declare that We have this day
audited the said Accounts of the said Vestry, at the Vestry's Offices, Town Hall,
Rotherhithe, in the Administrative County of London, and that the said Accounts are true
and correct, and We do allow the same accordingly, and sign the same in token of such our
allowance thereof.
We have also audited the Accounts and Vouchers in connection with the Princess of
Wales Jubilee Dinner Fund, 1897, and find them correct.
We desire to testify our appreciation of the excellent manner in which the Accounts of
the Parish have been kept, and to the uniform correctness of the same.
Given under our hands this 6th day of June, 1898,
(Signed) W. J. Brett,
Wm. Taylor,
F. J. Bartholomew,
Harry Moore,
G. R. Hood,
Auditors.