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109
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:—
MEETINGS.
During the year the following Meetings of the Vestry, and
ts Committees have taken place:—
Vestry Meetings
32
Standing Committee Meetings
97
Special and Sub-Committee Meetings
248
Parish Officers' Meetings
58
Total
435
annual accounts.
The Accounts of the Vestry for the year ending the 25th
March, 1888, will be found at pages 151 to 230 of this Report.
They have been examined by the Auditors elected by the Vestry
under the provisions of the Metropolis Local Management Acts.
From the Abstracts and Summaries of Accounts it appears
that the expenditure of the Metropolitan Board of Works and the
School Board for London together exceed more than one-third of
the total amount raised by the Vestry, and it must not be
forgotten that over the items of expenditure of these two authorities
this Vestry has no control.
bills in parliament (public).
Local Govern- -phis Bill was introduced into Parliament by the
ment Bill.
Right Hon. C. T. Ritchie, President of the Local Government
Board, on behalf of Her Majesty's Government, on the 19th