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SCHOOL BOARD PRECEPT.
The amount of the precept for the next year is £6902 2s. 11d.,
being an increase on the amount required by the last precept of
£474 19s. 6d.
MORTUARY.
The Rector having, on further consideration, withdrawn his
opposition to the proposal to convert the old watch-house, in the
churchyard, into a mortuary, plans, prepared by the late Surveyor,
were submitted to the Rector, and approved by him. The plans were
also approved by the Bishop of the Diocese and the Churchwardens.
The Vestry, being desirous of proceeding with the work, in July
directed advertisements inviting tenders to be issued.
The tenders were received in August, and one, by Mr. Alfred
Taylor, accepted, but the contract was not entered into. Mr.
Merceron, an owner of property in the parish, gave notice that he
should oppose in every way any interference whatever with the
churchyard. Mr. Merceron, in conjunction with a Mr. Wilson, who
is a lessee and tenant of Mr. Merceron, instituted an action in the
Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice, and served notice of
motion for an injunction to restrain the Vestry from carrying out the
proposed works. The Clerk offered to give an undertaking that
nothing should be done to carry out the proposed work until after
the faculty had been granted; but, as the offer was not accepted, the
motion came on, and was ordered to stand over on counsel for the
Vestry giving the undertaking which had been offered by the Clerk.
By their statement of claim, the plaintiffs set up that, having
regard to the terms of the Act of Parliament, by which this parish was
created, the Ecclesiastical Court has no power to grant a valid faculty;
but the Vestry are advised that the contention of the plaintiffs is not
well grounded. The plaintiffs are opposing the grant of the faculty.
WATERLOO ROAD.
The Road, abutting on the east side of the workhouse, and extending
to the banks of the canal on the northern extremity, has been occupied
in part on the north end, beyond Sewardstone Road west, by
the owners of an adjoining saw mill erecting on it stacks of timber.
The Clerk was directed to make inquiries as to whether that part
of the Road had been dedicated to the public, or whether it remained
private property; and if so to whom it belonged. The result of the
inquiries was that the part of the Road did not belong to the