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The offer by Mr. Forrest has been gladly accepted, and ho is, at the
date of this Report, proceeding to carry out the proposal he has so
liberally made.
SCHOOL BOARD PRECEPT.
The precept for the current year is for £3,573 4s. 7d., being an increase
on the amount of the last year's precept of £1,552 2s. 2d. equal to an
additional rate l½d.
METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS PRECEPT.
The amount required by the Board for the present year, is £6,225 5s. 2d.
being an increase on the amount required last year of £1,325 11s. 2d.,
nearly equal to an additional rate of 1½d.
PAVING OLD STREETS.
The Surveyor has submitted a List of Old Streets requiring the renewal
or re-laying of footway or carriageway paving, and it in contemplation
to provide for the gradual execution of the work by raising
and expending £500 per quarter.
COMPOSITION RATE.
In October, Mr. Donovan moved—That in assenting to the Composition
Rate, the Vestry desires to place upon record its opinion that the expenditure
upon the Composition Rate which has been growing for some years
past ought to bo very considerably reduced, and that it be referred to a
Special Committee to determine what charges ought no longer to be paid
by the Churchwardens out of the Composition Rate.
An Amendment was moved and carried that it be referred to a Committee
of the whole Vestry to consider and report what charges (if any)
ought no longer to be paid out of the Composition Rate. The Committee
considered seriatim the items of expenditure in the account for the past
year, and referred to items of expenditure in the accounts of the last
few years. The Committee recommended that repairs to the Churches
and any other special work bo only executed on previous resolution of
the Vestry, and that the salary of the Sexton of St. John, including his
disbursements for lighting furnaces and providing brooms and brushes be
£20 per annum.
The recommendations of the Committee were adopted.