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such importance that they appointed a Special Committee consisting
of Messrs. Dresser Rogers, Turney, Whiteley, Wallace,
Duckett, Middlemass, Walter, and Strong (with the Vestry
Clerk) to prepare a Petition in support of the Bill, and to take
all the necessary steps to have it presented. The Committee
also wrote to about forty Peers of the House of Lords,
enclosing a copy of the Petition, and urging them to consider
the allegations contained therein, and support it.
The Petition contained many details which may he
interesting to the Ratepayers generally. The following is a
copy:
To the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament
assembled.
The HUMBLE PETITION of the Vestry
of the Parish of Camberwell, in the County
of Surrey.
SHEWETH,
THAT a Bill, introduced by the Metropolitan Board
of Works to confer various powers on the Metropolitan
Board of Works with respect to the providing of Recreation
Grounds for the public and for other purposes, has
passed the Honourable the House of Commons, and is
now sent up to your Lordships' House.
THAT by clause 41 of the said Bill it is provided that,
from and after the 29th day of September, 1885, all the
estate and interest of the Governors of Dulwich College
respectively in or to the Dulwich College Lands, and in
respect of 72 acres, shall be transferred to the Metropolitan
Board by way of gift, and the same shall become vested in
the Board respectively, and the Board shall hold the said
lands and from time to time lay out and maintain and
preserve them as a Public Park for the perpetual use
thereof by the public for exercise and recreation.