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Your Lordship's Petitioners therefore humbly pray that
your Lordship will be pleased to decree a faculty for the purposes:
aforesaid.
AND YOUR PETITIONERS WILL EVER PRAY, &C.
It will be seen that the application to hold inquests iu
the Parish Mortuary has been incorporated in the petition
for this faculty for the laying out of the Burial Ground as a
place of resort.
The thanks of the Vestry are due, in this matter, to the
Rev. Norman Campbell, who has assisted by every means in
his power, to the Metropolitan Public Gardens' Association,
and to the Chairman and Members of the Mortuary Committee,
who have given careful consideration to all the steps
necessary to be taken to successfully carry through the
resolution of the Vestry of the 17th of February.
PERSONAL.
The Vestry have to record the death, during the past
year, of Mr. John Simmonds, who was one of the representatives
in the Vestry of Ward No. 6. Though not at the
time of his death a Member of the Vestry, he had, while
taking part in its debates, exhibited such marked zeal and
ability that the intelligence of his early death was received
with sincere regret.
I also take this opportunity of recording that Mr.
Andrew Middlemass was stricken down with a serious and
alarming illness, but, happily, was restored to health and
enabled once more to take his seat in the Vestry. His
return to his active and responsible duties was a source of
the sincerest gratification to his colleagues, and the Vestry
unanimously passed the following resolution thereon:-