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95.
VESTRY CLERK'S REPORT.
Your Vestry Clerk begs to submit the following Report
upon some of the chief questions which, have been under
the consideration of the Vestry during the past year:—
Bill in Parliament—DULWICH PARK.
Last year the various steps taken to secure for the Parish
of Camberwell, and the inhabitants of South London
generally, about 72 acres of land for a public Park at
Dulwich, were fully detailed in the Annual Report of
the Vestry, and at the date to which that Report was
brought up, the Metropolitan Board of Works had before
Parliament their Various Powers Bill, containing inter alia,
power to acquire by gift from the Governors of Dulwich
College, the 72 acres of land referred to.
On the 6th of May, 1885, the Chairman of the Vestry
(E. Dresser Rogers, Esq.) was able to report that the clause
in the Board's Bill had passed the Committee of the House
of Commons to which it had been referred. At the same
meeting it was unanimously resolved that the best thanks
of the Vestry be given to Messrs. Francis Hayman Fowler,
Edward Dresser Rogers, George Crispe Whiteley, James
Walter, Matthew Wallace, and William Benjamin Hurst
for their exertions to secure the acquisition of a Park for
South London.
In consequence of the great opposition subsequently made
to the Bill, in the House of Lords, by the Governors of Dulwich
College, who appeared by Counsel, the Vestry deemed it of