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tuary your Special Committee were entrusted
to provide. The only impediment, in your
Vestry Clerk's opinion, would be the passing
into law of a Bill, now before Parliament,
making it illegal to erect any building on a
disused churchyard. The Chairman of the
Committee, and your Vestry Clerk, have, on behalf
of the committee, been in communication with
members of Parliament, to obtain the insertion
of a clause exempting mortuaries from the
operation of this Disused Burials Ground Bill.
It is satisfactory to add that the replies received
lead the committee to believe that this reasonable
exemption will be made.
The Vestry will be glad to be reminded of
several other of the chief matters of interest
which have come within their discussions during
the period embraced by this report.
London
Government
Bill.
The Home Secretary having introduced a
Bill "For the better Government of London,"
it received the anxious consideration of the
Vestry—involving, as it did, the important
principle of Local Self Government. The