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consideration and report to a Special Committee consisting of the
Chairmen of the three Standing Committees and twelve other members.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The subject of procuring a Disinfecting Apparatus has been considered,
but after inspecting Lyons' Apparatus the further consideration
was adjourned. Should the Vestry have a Destructor, it is thought
the Disinfecting Apparatus may bo an adjunct to it, and so bo more
economically erected and worked.
An application by tho Inspectors of Nuisances for an incroase of
their salaries was not accodod to.
An application by tho Medical Officer for increase of salary was
withdrawn.
Tho application by tho junior clerk in tho Surveyor's office for an
increase of wages was referred to a Special Committee, who rocommended
that tho wagos bo raisod to a maximum of 15s. per week.
Mr. Robert Brookes having resigned his office as one of the trustees
of Margaretta Brown's Charity, Mr. James Bishop, then Upper
Churchwardon, was elected a trustee in tho place of Mr. Brookes.
Permission has boon granted to the Coroner to hold inquests in the
Vestry Hall on paymont of 5s. for each inquest, but if more than one
inquest bo hold at a time, then a half fee for each after the first.
Of those fees one-half is to be allowed to the hall keeper.
Some new buildings boing about to be erected on the east side of
Russia-lane, an arrangement was made with the owner to set back the
building and to give up the ground in front to widen the footway.
Five Delegates, viz., the Member of the Board of Works, Mr. W.
Richardson, Mr. Perrin, Mr. J. V. Jones, and Mr. Thurgood have
boon appointed delegates to attend a proposed conference on the Bill for
the Municipal Government of the Metropolis, to be hold after the Bill
has been introduced.
Petitions have been presented to the House of Commons in favour
of the London Riverside Fish Market Bill and the Metropolitan Outer
Circle Railway Bill.
ROBERT VOSS,
Vestry Clerk.