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VESTRY CLERK'S REPORT.
Your Vestry Clerk begs to report that during the
last year, the following questions received the consideration
of the Vestry.
One of the most recent, and, to the inhabitants
of South London, most important, was the movement
of acquire a Park, for the free use and enjoyment of
he public for ever, at Dulwich. In October last the
finance Committee reported to the Vestry that they
?ad had brought under their notice a proposal of the
Estates Governors of Dulwich College to give about
? acres of land for this purpose. The Committee
Reported that, in their opinion, it was most desirable
that the proposed portion of the Dulwich College
Estate should be kept as an open space, and they
ecommended that Mr. E. Dresser Rogers, the representative
of Camberwell at the Metropolitan Board of
Works, be requested to further the scheme in every
Possible way ; and that the members of Parliament for
Lambeth and East Surrey be requested to support,
in the House of Commons, any bill which might be
introduced by the Metropolitan Board of Works to
carry into effect the proposal so wisely made by the
governing body of Dulwich College. The recommendations
were adopted by the Vestry. Subsequently,
Dulwich Park