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probability of the Board obtaining statutory authority, in
the next session of Parliament, to erect the bridge.
LONDON GOVERNMENT.
During the past year a letter was received from the
Vestry of St. Mary, Islington, enclosing a scheme for the
future Government of the Metropolis by means of Municipalities,
and stating that they were desirious of ascertaining the
views of, other local authorities thereon. The Vestry,
however, did not consider the time was fitting for a discussion
of the subject, as there was not then any probability of its
coming before Parliament.
SCHOOL BOARD EXPENDITURE.
The payment, from time to time of the steadily-increasing
Precepts of the School Board, has, as in previous years,
again brought the question of the Expenditure of that body
under the consideration of the Vestry. The Vestry having
received a Precept from the School Board requiring the
payment of £32,927 10s. 2d. for the year ending March,
1886 (the Precept for the year ending March, 1887, was
£36,347 4s. 2d.), the Vestry, as also many of the rating
authorities of the Metropolis, presented a Petition to the
House of Commons in the following terms:—
House of Commons, Session 1885.
To the Honorable the Commons of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled.
The HUMBLE PETITION of the Vestry of Camberwell,
in the County of Surrey, as to the Expenditure
of the School Board for London.
SHEWETH,
THAT your Petitioners are the Bating Authority named in
the Elementary Education Act, 1870, and upon whom Preceptsare
to he made by the School Board for London.
rIhat your Petitioners desire to draw attention to the
increasing expenditure of the School Board, which expenditure