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LEYERINGTON CHARITY.
Of the recipients last year, seven were dead or disqualified. The
remaining thirty-three recipients were re-elected, and the number of forty
recipients was made up by the election of the following: —
Richard Anneron, Austin street Mrs. S. Swift, 3, Globe street
Sarah Cherry, 1, Victoria place, Hackney Sarah Tyerman, 15, Peel grove
road Isabella Trevellyan, 73, Bethnal green
John Cleveley. 6, Busby street road
James Petigree, 37, Fuller steeet
TREASURER.
Mr. Nathaniel Hardingham, one of the Treasurers, died on the 18th
of February, 1872, and Mr. Thomas Watson Francis, of No. 2, Hackney
Road, has been elected to succeed him.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The cost of scavenging being now so serious an item, and increasing
every year, it was suggested that some alteration in the mode of carrying
out the work might be devised, and the matter was referred to a Committee,
but after considering it, the Committee advised that tenders should
be invited as before, which was done.
The Yestry considering that the whole of the land reclaimed, at the
cost of the ratepayers, from the Thames, should be preserved as recreation
ground for the public, petitioned the Legislature against the proposal to
appropriate any part of the reclaimed ground for building purposes.
The Great Eastern Railway Company applied to be allowed to move
the entrance gates to their depot from Artillery Street to Clarence Street,
and to alter the level of the carriageway of Clarence Street. After investigating
the matter, the permission was granted, on condition that the
Railway Company obtained the consent, in writing, of the owners of the
houses, Nos. 12 to 17, and that the cost of paving the surface of the
carriageway be paid by the Company.
Several complaints have been made of disorderly houses being kept,
but the Yestry have succeeded in putting an end to the nuisances, of
which complaints were made, without having recourse to legal proceedings.
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