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Your Committee felt that, in coming to a decision
on the merits of these two schemes, it was absolutely
necessary to have some regard to the very considerable
increase, since 1881, in the population of Ward
6 especially, (which already is estimated at 60,192,
showing an increase of 17,166 since 1881);. and having
regard to the population assigned by Scheme No. 2
to the Electoral Division, which includes No. 6
Ward, your Committee were of opinion that it
would be more in the interests of the Parish to adopt
a scheme which—taking the figures of the census of
1881—showed a much smaller population in such
Electoral Division than in either of the other two
Divisions.
Your Committee therefore adopted Scheme No. 1,
and now recommend it to the Vestry to be submitted
at once to the Commission with the proviso that—
if rejected by the Commissioners as not in accordance
with Section 3 of their " Instructions," which
section states that, in dealing with the division of