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than 6ft. 6in. from the footway, and under no circumstances will shopkeepers
be allowed to hang any goods whatever on the awning or sun
blind which come within 6ft. 6in. of the footway or carriageway.
13.—Sunday Mornings.—All shopkeepers are required to remove
at or before 11 o'clock on Sunday mornings, all projections on or over
and all things put or deposited by them on any footway or carriageway.
And all Barrows, Carts, Stalls, and things of every sort belonging
to costermongers, street hawkers or itinerant traders, must be removed
and cleared away from the foot and carriageways at or before 11
o'clock on Sunday mornings.
In September a deputation presented a petition asking the
Yestry to extend the time for shopkeepers having goods on or over
the pavement on Sunday mornings from 11 o'clock to 1 o'clock.
The petition was referred to the Committee for consideration and
report.
The Committee in October reported and recommended that no
alteration be made in the Regulations, and the recommendation
was (after debate, and two amendments being rejected) adopted.
In November a deputation presented a letter from Mr. Charles
I. Walton, enclosing copy of a resolution of a meeting at Abbey
Street Schools as follows:—
"That the meeting is of opinion that the prosecutions of the
Bethnal Green Yestry against the shopkeepers and stallkeepers for
exhibiting their goods on Sundays after 11 a.m. is deserving of the
severest censure."
The resolution was referred to a Committee of the Whole Yestry.
At a meeting on the 15th November, a deputation of shopkeepers
from Sclater Street, with Mr. Swaine, a solicitor, asked
that the time specified in regulation 13 be altered from 11 to 1,
and that the pending summonses should be adjourned for a
fortnight.
At the same meeting, Mr. Hay presented a letter alleging to
the effect that the Regulations were not impartially enforced, and
asking that immediate proceedings should be taken against six
Vestrymen named by him.