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COAL, CORN, AND WINE DUES.
The subject of the continuance of the Coal, Corn, and Wine Dues
was referred to the Parliamentary Committee, who reported in
November they were not at present prepared to report in favour of
the continuance of those Dues. Attention has since been drawn
several times to the subject, and Delegates were appointed to
and did attend a conference at Whitechapel. In March a
Deputation from a Meeting of ratepayers, held at the Baptist
Chapel, Bethnal Green Road, attended the Vestry and presented
a resolution passed at the Meeting to the effect that the Coal Dues
are wrong in principle and a tax upon a necessary of life, are
injurious to trade and manufacture, and being controlled by two
non-representative bodies, are liable to grave abuse.
SCHOOL BOARD FOR LONDON.
The Vestry have communicated to the Education Department
their opinion:
That it is desirable to adopt the Parliamentary Electoral
Districts as the Electoral Districts for School Board
purposes, with one Member for each District, whereby
cumulative voting would be brought to an end.
That casual vacancies in the Board should be filled up by direct
election in the Division in which the vacancy has occurred,
instead of by the Board itself.
STOP COCKS IN STREET.
The appeal from the Queen's Bench Division was heard on the
3rd and 4th of August, 1886. The Lords Justices upheld the
decision of the Queen's Bench Division, but on grounds different
to those on which the decision appealed from was based.
EAST LONDON WATER WORKS COMPANY
BILL (1886).
The Vestry and other Local Bodies opposed the Bill in
Committee as mentioned in last report, with the result that the