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the President of the Local Government Board,
" that in every case where the boundaries of a
" Borough are proposed to be altered, whether by
" extension or otherwise, the alteration should if
" possible be consistent with well established limits,
" such as parochial or other similar boundaries," and
that the said amendment is not in accordance
therewith.
THAT if the Hamlet of Penge should be
included in the Borough of Camberwell, and the
Boundary Commissioners should (as having regard
to the disposition of the population is probable) be
of opinion that the said Hamlet of Penge should be
added to the division of your petitioners' Parish
(as already proposed by them as aforesaid), consisting
of the Camberwell and Dulwich Wards, the
division so constituted would be five and a half miles
in length (being more than the total length of your
petitioners' Parish), and as large in area as some
of the divisions of counties, and your petitioners
submit that it is contrary to the principle which
this Honorable House has adopted that so large a
district should be constituted an Electoral Division
of a Borough.
THAT if the Hamlet of Penge be added to
your petitioners' Parish, the total population of the
Borough of Camberwell so constituted, will according
to the census of 1881 be 205,243, and your
petitioners humbly submit that the said Borough
ought in that case to return four representatives to
this Honourable House, and
THAT your Petitioners desire respectfully to
bring before the attention of this Honorable House,
the great and exceptional increase of population