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ing the benefit to several more poor persons than they
were enabled to do last year.
In every case the Distributors have personally visited
the Aged Parishioners, and paid the Pensions awarded to
them, at their own homes, thus enabling them to take care
that the money was given to persons of a deserving
character, and preventing any fraud or abuse of the Funds
entrusted to them to distribute.
The cases of the applicants for relief from the Samaritan
Fund, numbering 406, were all carefully investigated, and
your Committee believe that the most deserving cases were
selected as recipients of the Charity, they being all, as in
the case of the aged Parishioners Grant, personally visited
and carefully inquired into by the Distributors in whose
District the cases were situated, and your Committee are
enabled to congratulate the Vestry on the fact that the system
adopted by the Vestry for the last two years has been
attended by an improved mode of the distribution of the
Funds, and has conferred great benefit on many poor and
deserving persons in the parish.
In conclusion your Committee beg to inform the Vestry,
that the Register of Recipients of the Charity under the
different heads is completed to the end of the year, and is
now laid on the table, or it can be inspected at the Vestry
Clerk's Office, by any Member of the Vestry, or by the
Ratepayers during the usual hours of business.
All which is respectfully submitted to the Vestry.
The foregoing Accounts have been examined and found
correct by us.
W. F. Carey,
Auditors of
Wm. Hy. Elliot,
the Parish
Peter Fawcett,
of St. Giles,
Walter Lean, '
Camberwell.
Richard Keen,
G. L. TURNEY,
Chairman.