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15
FOURNIER'S CHARITY.
Of the applicants, 34 were, on examination, found eligible, out of
whom the following were elected and received the gift:—
Abraham Benham, 31, North Place, Globe Street.
Henry Rowland Brown, 40, Edward Street.
Isaiah Cox, 28, Thomas Street, Fuller Street.
Robert Goff, 17, Wolverley Street.
Richard Maynard, 5, Park Place.
Lewis Ney, 17, The Oval.
Sarah Pearce, 8, Prospect Place.
George Smith, 513, Hackney Road.
Eliza Stanbrook, 4, Bennett's Place.
Maria Swift, 5, Matilda Street.
Emma Elizabeth Tarris, 12, Ion Square.
LEVERINGTON CHARITY.
The surviving recipients of last year were elected recipients for this
year, and to make up the full number of 40, the following persons were
also elected recipients for this year:—
Edward Jones, 6, Nelson Street.
Mary Alice Palmer, 7, Gloucester Street.
Benjamin Savage, 21, Hope Street.
Mary Ann Sumner, 27, White Street.
Subsequently to the Annual Election, Mrs. Spratt having become
disqualified as a recipient by removal from the parish, the Vestry
elected in her place as a recipient for the year—
John Touchfield, 13, Pollard Street.
PUBLIC LIBRARIES ACT.
The Rule nisi mentioned in the last Annual Report was argued and
discharged, the Court deciding that the right to demand a poll was
clear.
At a meeting of the Vestry held on the 2nd December another
requisition to call a meeting of ratepayers, in accordance with a provision
of the Act, was presented. In compliance with the requisition, a
meeting of the ratepayers was convened, and held on 15th December,
at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, at the National School of St. John,
in Peel Grove.